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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: The US Government Sees Silicon Valley As Part Of Its Propaganda Machine
Published: 2022-10-21
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhn_fTxzE8Q
Title: The US Government Sees Silicon Valley As Part Of Its Propaganda Machine
Published: 2022-10-21
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhn_fTxzE8Q
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the U.S government sees Silicon Valley as part of its propaganda machine the Biden Administration is reportedly considering opening a National Security review of Elon musk's business ventures which could see the plutocrats purchase of Twitter blocked by the White House in part because musk is perceived as having an increasingly russia-friendly stance Bloomberg reports quote Biden Administration officials are discussing whether the U.S should subject some of Elon2/15
musk's Ventures to National Security reviews including the deal for Twitter Incorporated and spacex's starlink satellite Network according to people familiar with the matter U.S officials have grown uncomfortable over musk's recent threat to stop supplying the starlink satellite service to Ukraine he said it had cost him 80 million dollars so far and what they see is as his increasingly russia-friendly stance following a series of tweets that3/15
outlined peace proposals favorable to Vladimir Putin they are also concerned by his plans to buy Twitter with a group of foreign investors end quote and the group of foreign investors the Biden Administration is reportedly worried about oddly includes Prince al-walid bin talal of Saudi Arabia who has already been a massive Twitter shareholder for years the White House certainly never had a problem with foreign investors there4/15
before officials in the U.S government and intelligence Community are weighing what tools if any are available that would allow the federal government to review musk's Ventures Bloomberg writes one possibility is through the law governing the committee on foreign investment in the United States cfius to review musk's deals and operations for National Security risks they said musk the world's richest person has taken to Twitter in recent5/15
weeks to announce proposals to end Russia's war and threaten to cut financial support for starlink internet in Ukraine says Bloomberg his tweets and public comments have frustrated officials in the U.S and Europe and drawn praise from America's rivals if the Twitter acquisition was to be reviewed by cfius for national security reasons the agency could recommend to President Biden that he Nicks the deal something musk himself6/15
has tried and failed to do in recent months Wright's business insiders Kate Duffy on the Bloomberg scoop indeed musk has already indicated that he'd find it funny if the Biden Administration blocked his purchase of Twitter a 44 billion dollar buy that the Tesla executive has made every legal effort to back out of but how revealing is it that someone could be forbidden by the White House7/15
from purchasing a giant social media company on the grounds that they are not sufficiently hostile toward Moscow neither Bloomberg nor any other mainstream members of the Imperial commentariat appeared to take any interest in the jarring notion that the U.S government could end up Banning the purchase of an online platform because it views the purchaser as having an unacceptably russia-friendly stance not only is it uncritically accepted8/15
that the US government mustn't allow the purchase of a social media company if the would-be buyer isn't deemed adequately hostile to U.S enemies but mainstream Liberals are actively cheering for this outcome there's a viral tweet from duty to warn breaking Biden is considering blocking musk's Twitter deal due to close 1028 worried by his threat to stop supplying Starling to Ukraine and his russia-friendly peace proposals the9/15
committee on foreign investment in the United States can Nix the deal this just says so much about how the U.S government views the function of Silicon Valley Mega corporations and why it has been exerting more and more pressure on them to collaborate with the Empire to greater and greater degrees of intimacy as far as the U.S Empire is concerned Silicon Valley is just an arm of10/15
the Imperial propaganda machine and Empire apologists believe that as it should be none of this will come as a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention to things like the DraStic escalations in online censorship since the war in Ukraine began including on Twitter or the ongoing expansion of Internet censorship protocols that were already well underway before this War started it will also come as no surprise11/15
to people whose ears pricked up when the White House summoned top social media influencers to a briefing in which they were instructed how to talk about the Ukraine war it will also come as no surprise to those who paid attention to the public outcry when it was discovered that the Biden Administration was assembling a disinformation governance board to function as an official Ministry of Truth for12/15
online content or when the White House admitted to flagging problematic posts for Facebook to take down or when Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the censorship of the hunter Biden laptop October surprise in the last presidential race was done in conjunction with the FBI it is abundantly clear to anyone paying attention that Silicon Valley Tech companies are a major part of the Imperial narrative control system the U.S13/15
Empire has invested in soft power to an exponentially greater degree than any other Empire in history and has refined the science of mass scale psychological manipulation to produce the mightiest propaganda machines since the dawn of civilization Silicon Valley is being used to manipulate the way people think about world events via algorithm manipulation censorship and sophisticated information Ops like Wikipedia in an entirely unprecedented way that is14/15
becoming more and more important to Imperial control as the old media give way to the new narrative control centers like Silicon Valley the news media and Hollywood are just as crucial for U.S Imperial domination as the military that the U.S government is weighing intervention to stop the purchase of an online platform because it lacks confidence that the would-be owner would reliably Advance U.S information interests as