System Update with Glenn Greenwald What Mark Zuckerberg’s New Misinfo Policy Means For Internet Freedom; The Disinformation Complex: Dismantled At Last?
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Jan 8, 2025 AI Snips
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Internet Freedom's Decline
- The internet wasn't always censored.
- The idea of Big Tech platforms censoring political speech emerged after 2016.
Birth of Disinformation Censorship
- Western liberals' anxieties after Brexit and Trump's 2016 win fueled online censorship.
- This led to the creation of organizations focused on combating "disinformation."
COVID Lab Leak Censorship
- Experts initially dismissed the COVID lab leak theory as disinformation.
- Years later, governments now consider the lab leak a likely origin.