Now that they can no longer dismiss it as conspiracy theories, the "free press" is trying to dismiss state-corporate collusion on censorship as something that i

Now that they can no longer dismiss it as conspiracy theories, the "free press" is trying to dismiss state-corporate collusion on censorship as something that is routine. > no one involved in the selection and analysis of the internal communications appears to have any familiarity with (let alone expertise in) how social media and tech platforms are moderated or run. They didn't have familiarity with it because Twitter was hiding it, and it took essentially a hostile takeover for their practices to come to light. That social media is crawling with intelligence agents [1] and e.g. kept secret US government influence campaigns [2] is, according to what can now accurately be called regime media, so profoundly uninteresting it's barely worth mention. [1] https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-ex-fbi-cia-officials/ https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-... [2] https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/ https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-...