The Biden administration is reportedly targeting gamers online in an effort to “monitor and fight domestic extremism.”
A report by the Government Accountability Office and a response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed a collaboration between federal agencies and tech companies to essentially throttle some information sources and monitor for “extremism.”
A “Disinformation Primer” from the GAO notes that “Domestic Violent Extremists” online use “humor, aesthetics and memes” to disseminate their messages.
BREAKING: Federal agencies are secretly collaborating with gaming companies to “monitor and fight domestic extremism”
A report by the GAO reveals undisclosed collaboration between FBI, DHS, & huge companies like Roblox, Discord, Reddit.
The report warns of “extremists” using… pic.twitter.com/qGliN4xl2U
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 13, 2024
The collaborations are reportedly between federal agencies such as DHS and the FBI and large companies like Roblox, Discord, and Reddit.
The FBI and DHS are working with gaming companies to root out memes, humor, & aesthetics that might convert people to “domestic extremism” pic.twitter.com/6Ld3ccg95z
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 14, 2024
Meanwhile, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID “has been quietly pushing private sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national governments and funding bodies to adopt social media censorship practices, according to newly revealed internal documents,” according to the Foundation for Freedom.
A FOIA request by America First Legal (AFL) revealed a “Disinformation Primer,” labeled “for internal use only.”
“USAID’s ‘Disinformation Primer’ outlining its censorship promotion strategies is dated February 2021, the first month after the Biden administration took office after the 2020 election. It proposes censorship action items for virtually every governmental, non-governmental and private sector commercial actor across society to both individually and collectively take action against disfavored speech online,” noted the Foundation for Freedom.
Here is USAID deliberately targeting “gaming sites” for censorship to stop ordinary citizens from forming “interpretations of the world that differ from ‘mainstream’ sources.”
This is the US gov’t, using your tax dollars, plotting to stop people from disagreeing with the media. https://t.co/1sehpzuJ1d pic.twitter.com/8jJTjrtilF
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) March 14, 2024
A post about the findings on X by Mike Benz showed the “USAID deliberately targeting ‘gaming sites’ for censorship to stop ordinary citizens from forming ‘interpretations of the world that differ from ‘mainstream’ sources.”
The post prompted a one-word reaction from X owner Elon Musk.
Wow
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 14, 2024
“The USAID Disinformation Primer reveals a detailed compilation of the agency’s advocacy for some the most economically damaging censorship strategies — many of which had been deployed in America to throttle populists in the 2020 elections and afterwards — and endorses recommendations from some of the most controversial censorship industry institutions under scrutiny by the US Congress,” according to the Foundation for Freedom.
According to the group’s site:
In one revealing section from USAID’s Disinformation Primer, the government agency identifies the top disinformation threat as not being “state actors driving the issue” but rather that “problematic information more regularly originates from networks of alternative sites and anonymous individuals who have created their own ‘alt media’ online spaces.” Meaning, USAID sees the key threat as ordinary individuals online forming independent opinions online, not foreign intelligence agencies performing complex influence operations.
The “disinformation” obsession of the Biden administration prompted countless reactions on social media where X users denounced the government’s campaign.
U.S. intelligence wasn’t happen enough spying on innocent Americans on social media so now they’re invading our privacy when we play video games.
The FBI and DHS need to be defunded and dismantled.
There’s no saving them in their current form.
They’re a threat to our freedoms.
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) March 13, 2024
“Our Sacred Democracy™️” is when intelligence agencies team up with private companies to spy on American citizens.
— Adam Johnston (@ConquestTheory) March 14, 2024
There is a full scale invasion of our southern border right now and the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY is worried about memes!
This administration is a joke
— Dr. Steve Turley (@DrTurleyTalks) March 14, 2024
So tired of this shit
— George Alexopoulos (@GPrime85) March 13, 2024
The use of the word ‘problematic’ is always a dead giveaway that something authoritarian/censorious is in the offering.
— Star Lasswell (@StarLasswell1) March 14, 2024
The people who lie to us all the time about everything want to censor any places we might go to actually find the truth.
— Roger Williams (@PIAccount1) March 14, 2024
So the FBI and DHS don’t want people to communicate unless they have full control over it. Yes Police State we are aware.
— Old_Crow82 (@Old_Crow82) March 14, 2024
they fear free thinkers more than they fear God.
— WallyCleaver (@thisisanasylum) March 14, 2024
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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