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Excellent reporting by @eileenguo.bsky.social & colleagues at @technologyreview.com about the roots & spread of the right's allegations of a "censorship industrialization complex". Including the little tidbit that @ninajankowicz.com highlights below.... www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1...
How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policyNarratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles for years; then they took hold of Washington. What—and who—is behind them?urldefense.comNina JankowiczMike Benz was paid over HALF A MILLION DOLLARS from a SINGLE ORGANIZATION in a SINGLE YEAR to spread lies that there's a massive conspiracy to censor conservatives online www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1...