SUMMARY
The US Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Center on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) created an internal “Disinformation Primer” that revealed the agency’s explicit praise for private sector censorship strategies and proposed additional censorship practices and techniques.
USAID’s censorship proposals were aimed at influencing private sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national governments and funding bodies.
USAID endorsed “Advertiser Outreach” for the purpose of getting corporate advertisers to financially throttle disfavored media sources and social media accounts.
USAID recommended Google’s Redirect Method and “prebunking” (i.e., psychological inoculation) as potential solutions to stop the erosion of traditional media influence over citizen hearts and minds.
USAID proposed targeting gamers and gaming sites, pushing the need to censor their formation of “interpretations of the world that differ from ‘mainstream’ sources” and interrupting the process by which “individuals contribute their own ‘research'” to collectively form their own “populist expertise.”
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Truth has a way of working its way to the surface. The pandemic lie is out of the bag, and only the dumbest of humans will keep gulping their Kool-aid in fear. The bigger the lie, the more people will wake up to the truth...... I think you should apply to replace Tedros, BTW. :)
It's REALLY hard not to give up on humanity. With one half of humanity at war with the other half and the oligarchs orchestrating the divisions, it truly seems hopeless. I don't know where you get your stamina from Meryl, but I'm deeply grateful for the work. I'm doing my part because I have children and I desperately hope things will turn around, but our species is truly dysfunctional and maladapted to live on this planet.