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According to new information, censorship activists are trying to spy on and censor even supposedly encrypted text messages through apps like What’s App, Signal, and Telegram.

Technology and Science Secretary Michelle Donelan has announced plans to jail social media bosses who fail to censor "harmful" content.

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter may have capped the opening chapter in the Information Wars, where free speech won a small but crucial battle. Full spectrum combat across the digital landscape, however, will only intensify, as a new report from the Brookings Institution, a key player in the censorship industrial complex, demonstrates.

According to former White House adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, Twitter’s COVID-19 censorship led to the loss of life by preventing people from making the appropriate use of caution.

In recent years, prominent national security officials and media outlets have raised alarm about the unprecedented effects of foreign disinformation in democratic countries. In practice, what they mean is that democratic governments have fallen behind in their command of the methods of information warfare in the early 21st century. As outlined herein, while information warfare is a real and serious issue facing democratic governments in the 21st century, the war on disinformation, as currently practiced, has backfired spectacularly and done far more harm than good, as evidenced most clearly by the response to COVID-19.

Social media platforms have strayed from their stated roles as a digital town hall and a visible source of information by promoting a false narrative. Twitter censorship contributed to destructive pandemic policies and is criminal, says former white house COVID adviser.

There certainly is a lot of buzz surrounding the #TwitterFiles. Now, Jack Dorsey has come out and admitted that his 'biggest mistake' was creating the authoritarian censorship toolbox.

The disclosure on Tuesday was the fourth batch of documents AFL disclosed on COVID-19 censoring. Now, it has been revealed that the CDC had a secret censorship website with Twitter to control the COVID narrative.

Yoel Roth, the former Global Head of Trust and Safety for Twitter, exposed the widespread scientific censorship at Twitter.

The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated. The silencing tactic that has most commonly provoked attention and debate is the banning of particular posts or individuals by specific social media platforms. But the censorship regime that has been developed, and which is now rapidly escalating, extends far beyond those relatively limited punishments.