(18:45 in)
NBC News lead paragraph on the Censorship Industrial Complex (CIC):
A once-robust alliance of federal agencies, tech companies, election officials and researchers that worked together to thwart foreign propaganda and disinformation has fragmented after years of sustained Republican attacks.
This is amazingly bold!
An illegally coordinated group by the U.S. government agencies to censor US citizens - Missouri v. Biden case - has these people crying about it through their preferred media outlets (NBC), that has several propagandists (Brandy Zadrozny) that routinely push government talking points regarding disinformation.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which oversees federal election cybersecurity and has become a favorite target of Republicans, has halted its outreach to Silicon Valley, and the Department of Homeland Security has shuttered a board designed to coordinate its anti-disinformation programs.
[Scary Poppins is shelved; and needs a new show tune song: WOE IS ME!]
“Some of these efforts really are designed to isolate people and make them feel like they can’t communicate with CISA, like they can’t communicate with their peers in other states,” a person who works in state election administration said.
“People feel that things are really, really fraught, and common sense does not rule today,” the person added.
(My emphasis.)
Renee DiResta - who works for Stanford Internet Observatory - and much earlier the CIA - created fake Russian bots in 2017 to sabotage Roy Moore’s election campaign in the special Alabama Senate race (Jeff Sessions seat).
Renee then got promoted up to this group that works with CISA. Failing upward…or:
Crime Does Pay! It pays WELL!
This report dropped recently by the GOP made CISA et. al. mad.