My response to the Washington Post.
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) June 8, 2023
This is a 40-minute lecture, Part 1 in what I'd like to be an ongoing series, Censorship Industry Decoded.
This first video cut through the tricks & traps in WaPo's verbage. These tricks are stock for the industry & essential to understand. pic.twitter.com/XWHdRatY3G
Deceptive framing devices by The Washington Post. This is the story of hundreds of millions of social media posts on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Tik Tok, Reddit, every single platform on the American internet was censored ahead of the 2020 election, during the 2022 midterm elections, and during the entire COVID-19 pandemic. This is a story essentially about how the government private sector Civil Society news media in fact checking organizations fused into the cell of a single atom what was called their "Whole-of-Society" response to censoring the internet. An advanced talk aimed to educate policy makers and investigators who have a certain baseline background in this. If you're looking for a primer around this, simply go to "DHS Censorship Agency had Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt on "Red Mirage, Blue Shift" Election Events," Mike Benz, November 9, 2022 that breaks down the entire thing, the networks, the funding, the scale, and scope of the censorship that was done, who all was involved, why they did it, confession videos essentially on tape. He will walk away from this with a PhD in the scandal.
I had a conversation with Gabe Kozinski with the Washington examiner about his expectations of the piece. I told Gabe the article would be indistinguishable from a Chat gbt auto-aggregation of all the press releases of the federal government and EIP simply taking their word for what they say without any interrogation of the mountains of underlying evidence confession videos Source documents and I told Gabe the article is going to deflect by using words like "researcher" and "study" instead of using the word "censorship" or "flagging." It's going to try to characterize them as nebbish professors rather than as Government partnered operatives and it is probably going to include a picture of one of the stars of the story like Alex Stamos or Renee DiResta or Kate Starberg and it's going to have soft lighting and it's going to be middle distanced and the person is going to be looking slightly away from the camera in an angelic, mysterious hue to really drive home the mystery. "These academics studied falsehoods spread by Trump. Now the GOP wants answers," Naomi Nix and Joseph Meno, June 6, 2023.
