They Who Dwell in the Shadows By Chris Knight (Florida)

Talk about conspiracy theories being uncovered; I am losing track of the number coming true. For example, the US government has been involved in a mass censorship operation using third party actors, to censor the views of political agents that they saw as in any way problematic. The US State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC) used a covert corporation led by a former intelligence officer to blacklist conservative media outlets. This was revealed by Elon Musk’s “Twitter files.” What was created, and probably still thrives, is a Disinfo Cloud, acting by big Tech to censor by various means such dissents, most notably Covid vax critics during the height of the plandemic. This mechanism was set into place and has not been dismantled, so we can assume that it is stil operating, working away, day by day.

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“Independent journalists and conservative publishers were smeared far-and-wide within the U.S. government and even to foreign governments by the Disinfo Cloud.

The United States government has been exposed as running a shadowy censorship operation in contravention of the Constitution of the United States.

The federal government has been contracting with third-party actors to censor the political opinions of U.S. citizens, particularly, conservative Americans, according to new research from The Federalist.

The State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC) used a covert corporation led by a former intelligence officer to finance and promote the blacklisting of conservative media outlets and other censorship efforts, according to the report.

This Censorship-Industrial Complex was exposed when Elon Musk granted a group of independent journalists access to internal Twitter communications, resulting in the "Twitter Files." Among the federal players identified was the State Department's GEC, which went beyond influencing tech giants to censor unfavorable viewpoints.

The GEC not only provided funding for the development of censorship tools, but also utilized government employees as sales representatives to pitch these products to Big Tech. Further investigation has now revealed that the GEC used one or more for-profit businesses to lead four separate censorship initiatives, with contractors at times performing "inherently governmental functions."

The Global Engagement Center (GEC), as stated on its website, has a platform called Disinfo Cloud that serves as a repository for cataloguing tools and technologies aimed at countering propaganda and disinformation (CPD). Initially limited to ".mil and .gov" users, access to Disinfo Cloud was later expanded to include the private sector.

Under its "Silicon Valley Engagement" initiative, the GEC actively encouraged social media companies to join Disinfo Cloud, which assists users in identifying technologies for speech censorship. This raises significant concerns regarding the First Amendment, as the details of Disinfo Cloud's operations and funding remain opaque, but it is evident that U.S. tax dollars were used to develop and maintain the platform.

A State Department spokesperson has previously explained that an external group called Park Advisors was tasked with managing Disinfo Cloud, with approximately $300,000 awarded to the group for this purpose. Christina Nemr, a former State Department employee who played a role in founding the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program, served as the director of Park Advisors and the administrator of Disinfo Cloud.

The Tech Demo Series, which was promoted by the government, claimed to showcase "promising technologies to combat propaganda and disinformation." However, the fact that Disinfo Cloud, a platform managed by the government's Global Engagement Center, highlighted the Tech Demo Series raises questions about whether these demonstrations of censorship technology were open to non-governmental groups, including Big Tech, and took on an infomercial-like quality.

The GEC's webpage states that the intended audience for the virtual demos of the Tech Demo Series consists of U.S. government counterparts and foreign partners, leaving uncertainty about whether censorship technology was marketed to external entities and, if so, in what manner. The roles of Disinfo Cloud and the GEC in hosting the Tech Demo Series remain unclear as well.

Danny Rogers, the American partner in the initiative, stressed in the team’s presentation that “over a dozen ad-tech companies,” covering “20 different media markets,” used GDI’s technology, the report added. That technology succeeded in “cutting the number of ad options” by over half, “redirecting millions of dollars away from disinformation peddlers toward quality journalism,” Rogers boasted.

Significantly, after learning GEC had selected the Global Disinformation Index as one of the winners of the U.S.-Paris Challenge, Rogers’ U.K. partner, Clare Melford, explained that the award, in addition to allowing GDI to increase its “language coverage capability,” would also allow GDI to expand its risk assessments into video news and bolster the infrastructure “underpinning all of the GDI’s activities … so that the ad tech base can offer advertisers the chance to choose which their ads support,” the report noted.

"In other words, our government paid for the infrastructure of GDI’s ratings system that resulted in conservative news outlets being blacklisted — $100,000 worth of U.S. tax dollars in total, funneled by the GEC to the Global Disinformation Index through Park Advisors," the report stated.

"While Disinfo Cloud was a GEC initiative, it appears Park Advisors and Nemr controlled the platform at DisinfoCloud.com, which has since been shuttered," the report noted.

According to the State Department's website, as this report adds, the U.S. agencies that used the Disinfo Cloud were: The Census Bureau, U.S. Congress, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of Global Affairs, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Treasury Department, U.S. Agency for Global Media, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The foreign governments that used the Disinfo Cloud were: The Australian Government, the Estonian Government, European Union, and the United Kingdom Government.

As noted by the Federalist's report, Disinfo Cloud’s Twitter account also promoted Disinfo Digest and the Tech Demo Series. The account also amplified the marketing of private censorship tools and companies, such as the unreliable media-ratings organizations Global Disinformation Index and NewsGuard.”