*Truth Cops**
*/Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation//
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Ken Klippenstein, Lee Fang
October 31 2022, 10:00 a.m.
The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to
curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept
has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained
via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents —
illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.
The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came
into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new
“Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police
misinformation (false information spread unintentionally),
disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and
malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context,
with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the
board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down
within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to
monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on
terror — has been wound down.
Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S.
government has used its power to try to shape online discourse.
According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit
filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is
also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and
scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of
streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading
information.
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continua qui:
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/
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