Latest Round Of Twitter Files Exposes Shadowy, Global ‘Information Cartel’

The classic definition of fascism is a collusion between the private sector and the state.

No other story best highlights this than the ongoing revelations of the Twitter files—the latest round has revealed what many of us have been saying all along.

According to Andrew Lowenthal, a veteran NGO director working on digital and online freedoms, a shadowy globalist organization known as the Vanguard-25 was given a huge grant from the Department of Defense to combat ‘misinformation’.

The organization is comprised of individuals from the State Department, Microsoft, The Huffington Post, and government officials from around the globe. …

Roughly $1 billion was awarded to the Vanguard 25 by the DOD and a quick glance at the individuals and entities involved screams deep-state, left-wing censorship.

Below is the thread Lowenthal recently published on Twitter:

2. My name is Andrew Lowenthal. For almost 18 years, I was Executive Director of @EngageMedia, an NGO devoted to protecting digital rights and freedoms. In recent years, I watched with concern and then despair as a dramatic change swept through my field.

— NetworkAffects (@NAffects) April 25, 2023

4. I knew things were bad. When I started work on the #TwitterFiles, I learned: they're far worse. The Files show an uncanny alliance of academics, journalists, intelligence operatives, military personnel, government bureaucrats, NGO workers and more. Some I know personally. pic.twitter.com/iyzskcDaBh

— NetworkAffects (@NAffects) April 25, 2023

6. Also startling: Twitter emails and Slack communications suggesting heightened levels of data access for the military. Or military contractors like Mitre being part of the Aspen Institute's "Information Disorder" report along with NGO and academic colleagues. pic.twitter.com/g3kPrIDvB7

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8. In the #TwitterFiles, tech firms collaborate with each other, and the state. Companies organize "IndustrySynch," "Industry comms," "pre-sync," and "Multi-Party Information Sharing," collaborating on a "whole range" of subjects, from election security to state-media labeling. pic.twitter.com/3u4oBC2sR8

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10. Here Twitter staff ask for Twitter General Counsel (& former FBI Deputy General Counsel) Jim Baker's blessing for EIP and Virality Project partner Graphika to "inform their partners in USG 3-5 days before publication" of a report detailing Pentagon disinformation operations. pic.twitter.com/wCVQQqnU4N

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12. During the War on Terror the DHS was harshly criticized by progressives for civil rights violations and targeting of Muslims. Now DHS sub-entities like CISA work closely with progressive tech. Here Twitter warmly welcomes a DHS/CISA staffer's job application. pic.twitter.com/8tqzTs0Xrw

— NetworkAffects (@NAffects) April 25, 2023

14. As reported by @shellenbergerMD, The Aspen Institute combined WaPo, NYT, Rollingstone, NBC, CNN, Twitter, Facebook, Stanford, and "anti-disinfo" NGOs like FirstDraft to practice an oddly prescient "hack and leak" exercise on the Hunter Biden laptop BEFORE its release. pic.twitter.com/XGVyCHM94r

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16. "We totally blew it on our Burisma tabletop this summer — we didn't have Trump announcing "Lock him up" until day *nine* of the Burisma information operation" writes Garret Graff, the Aspen Institute’s Director of Cyber Initiatives. pic.twitter.com/xVkZ0xshV3

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18. Last week Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was alleged to have instigated the "Russian" "hack" letter signed by 50 former intel officials. At RightsCon, civil society's biggest digital rights event, Blinken spoke on 'disinformation' with Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa. pic.twitter.com/Wu8zIdL8E1

— NetworkAffects (@NAffects) April 25, 2023

20. Anti-disinformation conferences teem with Beltway journalists – the same names from the Post, Times, Atlantic, and NBC, over and over – but these proto-censorship workshops are often off the record, like defense or intel confabs. Reporters are participants, not adversaries. pic.twitter.com/BmExtHKsVW

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22. Craig Newmark is reported to have given more than $200m to journalism projects, (by another estimate $338m) including the founding funds for the Stanford Internet Observatory. pic.twitter.com/HOh6CMMt8q

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24. The #TwitterFiles are riddled with removal demands from opaque cut-out organizations like the Center for Countering Digital Hate, whose mysterious funding never troubles either Twitter execs or the reporters who transmit their demands. pic.twitter.com/ERAGsxe6TX

— NetworkAffects (@NAffects) April 25, 2023

26. Industry folds, and all the people from these groups – the same names, over and over – get together for hors d'oeuvres at cozy conferences with NATO STRATCOM, the Center for European Policy Analysis, the Carnegie Endowment, etc. One big club. pic.twitter.com/Chv0qiDeqK

— NetworkAffects (@NAffects) April 25, 2023

28. Nor was I prepared to read bluntly Orwellian communications like Twitter's cheery "Visibility Filtering Year in Review" Newsletter, boasting of new innovations in "soft intervention" and the "Visibility Filtering Library." pic.twitter.com/02pZ7viqXK

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30. In a similar vein The Algorthmic Transparency Institute (a core Virality Project partner) conducted Stasi-style “civic listening” and “automated collection of data” from “closed messaging apps” to hunt down "problematic content" through its Junkipedia initiative. pic.twitter.com/ALUsAFuMc0

— NetworkAffects (@NAffects) April 25, 2023

31. NGOs shill for corporate products. The Public Good Projects (a Twitter's COVID 'misinformation' partner) ran initiatives to "increase vaccine demand". @lhfang's #TwitterFiles revealed BioNTech sought Twitter's help to repress a vaccine equity campaign. https://t.co/C9P74aP6xf pic.twitter.com/xb9akqI0YY

— NetworkAffects (@NAffects) April 25, 2023