Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation

Re:Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinforma... by CharlesW on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:44PM (#33410628)

You mean the Hunter Biden laptop story literally everyone has heard about incessantly for years? The same one that They suppressed from the mainstream media, Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia¹? The one that's the reason They are going to downvote your post?

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers...

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Re:Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinforma... by pxmpxm on Monday October 31, 2022 @03:38PM (#33411601)

For years after the election, certainly not before - the narrative before was between alleged Russian disinformation and complete fabrication.

eg NPR

"We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions."

I can only imagine how much more effective this strategy would be if you have codify it into a federal agency.

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Re:Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinforma... by andirk on Monday October 31, 2022 @03:20PM (#33411277)

1) Most MSM harped on that it happened but not its contents. Same with other leaks such as emails, paid speeches, cables, etc. The story gets out. The substance of the leaks, however, are not widely discussed. Only that it happened.

2) I clearly stated that it was suppressed by MSM, Twitter, Facebook for a short period before the election. Twitter and Facebook admitted it outright. Zuckerberg himself said they got a call from the State to "watch out" for it. It's no longer a debatable as to whether the suppression before the election happened.

And no, the downvotes come in droves when speaking less than positively about the American Democratic Party.

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