Over the last few weeks, Public and Racket have reported extensively on the role of US and UK military contractors in establishing the Censorship Industrial Complex. Thanks to a whistleblower, we discovered a missing link in the development of censorship tools and techniques: the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL).
…The CTIL Files show that censorship and anti-disinformation tactics were deeply partisan and that these tactics were just one part of a larger influence strategy. The overarching counterpopulist strategy included sophisticated offensive measures derived from military techniques, including psychological operations, developed abroad since World War II. We discovered that several Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees participated in CTIL’s disinformation team. Other operatives within the group were closely connected to the Trump-Russian collusion hoax.
All this points to a story that goes far beyond censorship. What we are discovering is a far-reaching counterpopulist agenda. The evidence suggests that after the election of Donald Trump in 2016, “information warfare” and counterterrorism tactics designed to combat foreign threats were turned against the domestic population.
Now, CTIL has chosen to respond to our research. How CTIL has responded gives important insights into how to end, or at least significantly reduce the influence of, government-led censorship and counterpopulist influence operations.
…Rogers also made new documents publicly available to exonerate the organization. But those documents confirm what the documents we already released show, which is precisely how expansive CTIL’s monitoring of social media content really was.
As such, the response by CTIL was as damning as our original reporting. This response points to the new weakness of the censors, and how their own denials and excuses will actually help us defeat the Censorship Industrial Complex.
In undermining their own credibility, it has to be asked why Rogers and CTIL bothered responding in the first place?
R&I~Smit
Free Assange
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