The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media.
- Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World
- Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund: Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps
The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.
wasn't taibbi's investigation about hunter biden dick pics and not like. mass consensus manufacturing of the state dept line through botting
That is what the Dem-aligned corporate media wanted Democrats to believe, and they seem have been very successful at it.
Jacobin, Dec. 2022: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal
Taibbi and others have discovered & revealed much more about the corporate social media propaganda system in the year since then, but Democrats have been trained to ignore all of it.
Yeah, he basically ignored how voices on the left are way more likely to get banned for bullshit reasons, presumably because Musk didn't provide him with those files. He let himself and his reputation be used, despite knowing better.