The onslaught of reporting about the federal government’s collaboration with social media platforms to restrict content has been alarming. Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” have shown how the FBI, White House, and other powerful institutions developed a cozy relationship with the social media company, involving routine meetings and instructions on suppressing what they considered “misinformation.”
An October report from the Intercept revealed that this relationship is still going, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security. The department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been directing content it considers to be “misinformation,” “disinformation,” or “malinformation” to Twitter and Meta, leading Meta to create a special portal specifically for government officials to report unwanted content.
