Operation Jigsaw: Google's 4 New Secret Methods of Online Censorship

Facts Matter

Google has a new initiative called "Info Intervention." It's a plan couched in the idea of keeping people safe from misinformation and harmful language—and the way to do that is to control ever more what we are able to see and say online.

Their official website bills this new initiative as a "set of approaches, informed by behavioral science research and validated by digital experiments, to build resilience to online harms." This new initiative has Google essentially using the exact same methodology on the user that Pavlov used on the dogs during his experiments. However, while Pavlov was trying to get the dogs to salivate, Google is trying to make their users question anything that goes against what their fact-checkers determine to be misinformation.

This new "Info Intervention" initiative is being led by one of Google's subsidiary companies—a company called Jigsaw. It is under complete Google management, and its mission statement is to "[apply] technological solutions, from countering extremism, online censorship and cyber-attacks, to protecting access to information."