11/11/22 Branko Marcetic on the DHSs Role in Online Censorship |

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Scott is joined by Branko Marcetic of Jacobin to discuss the recent revelations that the Department of Homeland Security has been guiding tech platforms on what they should censor. They observe some specific cases where platforms like Facebook and Google changed rules and suppressed stories to help prop up the U.S. governments narratives, even when they proved false. Scott and Marcetic also talk about the potential for cross-idealogical coalitions to fight back against these blatant and dangerous government interventions in the information space.

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Branko Marcetic is a writer for Jacobin Magazine, a fellow at In These Times, and host of the 1/200 podcast. He is the author of Yesterdays Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. Follow him on Twitter @BMarchetich.

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11/11/22 Branko Marcetic on the DHSs Role in Online Censorship

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