Andrew Lowenthal spent more than two decades defending digital rights, and watched as peers and partner organizations switched to an opposite mission called "anti-disinformation." An inside account
Jacob Siegel, who wrote the recent masterpiece “Guide to the Hoax of the Century” in Tablet, said in an interview on Unherd’s YT channel that the establishment of anti-disinformation operations was literally a coup. It’s counterinsurgency and we’re the “enemy.”
After reading this article I said to my wife I'm so glad that we're in our mid-sixties. In theory we won't be around to see how this nightmare ends. If I'm still around my main concern will be if I'm getting my jello at 5pm and the Orwellian-Kafka world can turn without me. But my wise wife then said..."Just remember, we're ONLY in our mid-sixties". Point taken. The speed and evolution of this new world has--is---and will firmly in place. Pity the 20–30-year-olds facing down this nightmare. They will inherit and have a front row seat to the show. Sorry to be so negative, but who really believes this can be turned around--even for a generation. Thank you to Andrew, Matt, Mike, and the other true journalists who have exposed it all. Stay safe and blessed.
Bravo to the author for being critical of his work and speaking out. We need more traitors to their profession to step up.
It amazes me the thousands of people that go ahead and keep doing their jobs at these think tanks, non profits, and alphabet soup beauracracies. They have to know at some level what they are doing is deeply destructive, yet they manage to quiet the voices and keep doing it. 'Institutionalized Immorality'. Maybe many of them are true believers, or just never recieved the equipment for empathetic critical thinking. Maybe they are cynics and just don't care so long as they can live a life of material priveledge.
Well that was a damn fine, if depressing, read. It seems like at some point the institutions said, "enough with this damn internet and all these deplorables making fun of us online. Time to put and end to it!"
And here we are.
Andrew says that we need to stop funding these groups, hard to imagine what's going to make that happen.
Trump and Brexit are offered up as separate instances of “populism”, a term that liberals use to describe the political blowback against the social disruption that their policies create. Anti-disinformation is their effort to silence that blowback.
It never occurs to them that their policies are the problem. They always conclude that the blowback is evidence that the people are the problem, or rather, the ignorance of the people is the problem. They will never concede that unchecked immigration has a negative effect on the employment market, availability of social services and creates massive disruption to communities. They simply lambaste us with accusations of racism.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn : “ beware the pitiless crowbar of events”.
For everyone’s betterment, they need to not steal the next election in America . Bloviating orange man is a release valve. They control all the institutions, and he will be able to achieve little to nothing. His rhetoric will simulate chaos, his efforts will produce little change.
What the heck is a “progressive-minded” person? This article on anti-disinformation starts with a desinformación trope. Actually, the “progressive-minded” hag is the clunkiest and tawdriest of all disinformation factotum.
I have never been so disappointed in my life as I am with the "progressives". They have sold their souls to the devil and are collaborating with evil. Please keep exposing all of these conspiracies (not theories) and maybe someday people will get angry enough to start at least contributing time and energy to maintaining and guarding our Constitutional freedoms.
Interestingly, a lot of pushback to the censorship is coming from the right. Perhaps that can be used as a unifying force among the poor and working classes who have ben divided by social issues and propaganda. A lot of them are already angry.
Outstanding. And chilling, all suspicions gain support. There is an extraordinary parallel between those developments and what has happened in the Big Pharma-Academia-Medical Practice interdependency.
Apr 26, 2023·edited Apr 26, 2023Liked by Andrew Lowenthal
Thank you for this. An outstanding complement to the important work Matt's been doing. Hopefully we'll hear much more from you.
For a while, it seemed like the modern era of instant electronic communications might help to tame the war pigs, but it seems they have found a way to continue: by dividing us, and appealing to the half with more political power--appealing to their better instincts, and maybe to their narcissism a little bit--they can keep right on blowing people to shreds in faraway places.
As for the loss of liberties in western society, it is a sign of weakness--just as surely as Xi's tightening grip in China. "Weakness" in both cases, China and the West, means an unsustainable economic model, which means a declining standard of living for most of us. Our voices will be silenced so we are unable to organize and push back against the controlled demolition of our civilization.
An Insider's Guide to "Anti-Disinformation"
Jacob Siegel, who wrote the recent masterpiece “Guide to the Hoax of the Century” in Tablet, said in an interview on Unherd’s YT channel that the establishment of anti-disinformation operations was literally a coup. It’s counterinsurgency and we’re the “enemy.”
Informative piece. The fact that the military and IC is funding this Anti-Dis stuff tell you all you need to know. It's baaaaaad.
After reading this article I said to my wife I'm so glad that we're in our mid-sixties. In theory we won't be around to see how this nightmare ends. If I'm still around my main concern will be if I'm getting my jello at 5pm and the Orwellian-Kafka world can turn without me. But my wise wife then said..."Just remember, we're ONLY in our mid-sixties". Point taken. The speed and evolution of this new world has--is---and will firmly in place. Pity the 20–30-year-olds facing down this nightmare. They will inherit and have a front row seat to the show. Sorry to be so negative, but who really believes this can be turned around--even for a generation. Thank you to Andrew, Matt, Mike, and the other true journalists who have exposed it all. Stay safe and blessed.
Bravo to the author for being critical of his work and speaking out. We need more traitors to their profession to step up.
It amazes me the thousands of people that go ahead and keep doing their jobs at these think tanks, non profits, and alphabet soup beauracracies. They have to know at some level what they are doing is deeply destructive, yet they manage to quiet the voices and keep doing it. 'Institutionalized Immorality'. Maybe many of them are true believers, or just never recieved the equipment for empathetic critical thinking. Maybe they are cynics and just don't care so long as they can live a life of material priveledge.
TL:DR somewhere between 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World - we are already there.
Poor fool - he did not realize that being a progressive was about getting and keeping power. They only believed in freedom until they got in charge.
Well that was a damn fine, if depressing, read. It seems like at some point the institutions said, "enough with this damn internet and all these deplorables making fun of us online. Time to put and end to it!"
And here we are.
Andrew says that we need to stop funding these groups, hard to imagine what's going to make that happen.
Trump and Brexit are offered up as separate instances of “populism”, a term that liberals use to describe the political blowback against the social disruption that their policies create. Anti-disinformation is their effort to silence that blowback.
It never occurs to them that their policies are the problem. They always conclude that the blowback is evidence that the people are the problem, or rather, the ignorance of the people is the problem. They will never concede that unchecked immigration has a negative effect on the employment market, availability of social services and creates massive disruption to communities. They simply lambaste us with accusations of racism.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn : “ beware the pitiless crowbar of events”.
For everyone’s betterment, they need to not steal the next election in America . Bloviating orange man is a release valve. They control all the institutions, and he will be able to achieve little to nothing. His rhetoric will simulate chaos, his efforts will produce little change.
What the heck is a “progressive-minded” person? This article on anti-disinformation starts with a desinformación trope. Actually, the “progressive-minded” hag is the clunkiest and tawdriest of all disinformation factotum.
I have never been so disappointed in my life as I am with the "progressives". They have sold their souls to the devil and are collaborating with evil. Please keep exposing all of these conspiracies (not theories) and maybe someday people will get angry enough to start at least contributing time and energy to maintaining and guarding our Constitutional freedoms.
Interestingly, a lot of pushback to the censorship is coming from the right. Perhaps that can be used as a unifying force among the poor and working classes who have ben divided by social issues and propaganda. A lot of them are already angry.
Shoe-on-other-foot reminded me of Martin Niemoller (Then they came for me...): https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-first-they-came-for-the-socialists.
The good guys are never the ones who have to control information or else.
Good piece, thank you sir.
Outstanding. And chilling, all suspicions gain support. There is an extraordinary parallel between those developments and what has happened in the Big Pharma-Academia-Medical Practice interdependency.
If anyone hasn't read Mr. Lowenthal's Twitter thread, i'd recommend it. Some serious reciepts on there.
Another great piece. It's almost impossible to get people to read and absorb any of this, very discouraging.
Thank you for this. An outstanding complement to the important work Matt's been doing. Hopefully we'll hear much more from you.
For a while, it seemed like the modern era of instant electronic communications might help to tame the war pigs, but it seems they have found a way to continue: by dividing us, and appealing to the half with more political power--appealing to their better instincts, and maybe to their narcissism a little bit--they can keep right on blowing people to shreds in faraway places.
As for the loss of liberties in western society, it is a sign of weakness--just as surely as Xi's tightening grip in China. "Weakness" in both cases, China and the West, means an unsustainable economic model, which means a declining standard of living for most of us. Our voices will be silenced so we are unable to organize and push back against the controlled demolition of our civilization.