Micheal Shellenberger: US Government using "Psy-Ops" against America to interferer with elections

Two days ago, my colleagues and I published the first batch of internal files from the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), which show US and UK military contractors working in 2019 and 2020 to censor and turn sophisticated psychological operations and disinformation tactics developed abroad against the American people. 

Many insist that all that we identified in the Twitter files, the Facebook files, and the CTI files were legal activities by social media platforms to take down content that violated the terms of service. Facebook, X, formerly Twitter, and other big tech companies are privately owned, people point out, and free to censor content. And government officials are free to point out wrong information, they argue. But, the First Amendment prohibits the government from abridging freedom of speech. 

The Supreme Court has ruled that the government may not induce, encourage, or promote private persons to accomplish what is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish, and there’s now a large body of evidence proving that the government did precisely that. 

What’s more, the whistleblower who delivered the CTIL files to us says that its leader, a quote, unquote former British intelligence analyst, was, quote, unquote in the room at the Obama White House in 2017 when she received the instructions to create a counter disinformation project to, quote, stop a repeat of 2016.