{"id":19728,"date":"2026-08-11T19:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=19728"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T19:18:06","slug":"how-the-censorship-industrial-complex-is-changing-the-internet-and-us-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=19728","title":{"rendered":"How the \u201ccensorship-industrial complex\u201d is changing the Internet and US policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And the reason? R\/FIMI, as the office was called, was accused of serving as the State Department\u2019s central hub in the so-called censorship-industrial complex\u2014a sprawling constellation of government agencies, academics, civil society groups, and Big Tech platforms allegedly conspiring to suppress conservative and populist speech online under the guise of combating disinformation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I broke the story around 10:30AM on April 16, (and broke more in the weeks that followed) but for me, it was just the start of a deep reporting rabbit-hole into an idea that had moved from the fringes of the right-wing Internet into the mainstream, championed and spread by a network of well-funded conservative media platforms and non-profits, and finally as a sort of prevailing logic behind much of the second Trump administration\u2019s domestic and foreign policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But this isn\u2019t just a policy story. The weaponization of ideas about censorship also affects the billions of people globally who get information, or interact with each other, online\u2014which is to say, all of us.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For more on what the narrative means for the Internet, read my story here.