The ZH link to Hans Mahncke’s breakdown of the Durham report is sadly on the money. Our own Sue Schmidt did a similar piece:

Eight Takeaways From the Durham Report

Susan Schmidt examines the highlights and lowlights of the new Special Counsel report on Trump-Russia

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New Twitter Files material shows suppression of Covid-related speech in Australia.

Twitter Files Extra: The Covid Censorship Requests of Australia's Department of Home Affairs

Twitter Files confirm that the Australian government has worked overtime to monitor Covid-related speech

“The McCarthy Reboot” The Censorship-Industrial Complex is new in scale and expense, but in both language and ambition, it's a perfect repeat of our history's darkest chapters

The McCarthy Reboot

The Censorship-Industrial Complex is new in its scale and expense, but in both language and ambition, a perfect repeat of our history's darkest cha...

Naval Special Warfare vet Tom Wyatt examines the life he might have lived as an anti-disinfo contractor in “Counter-Disinformation: The New Snake Oil”

Counter-Disinformation: The New Snake Oil

Now a journalist, Naval Special Warfare vet Tom Wyatt examines the life as an anti-disinformation contractor he could have led

Matt Farwell, who worked with my old Rolling Stone colleague Michael Hastings, traces a hundred years of anti-disinformation efforts in “A Century of Censorship”:

A Century of Censorship

Matt Farwell's painstaking timeline of over a hundred years of American information suppression, secret bureaucracies, and "anti-disinformation" sc...

After months of work by a team of ten, Racket is posting its taxonomic survey of the Censorship-Industrial Complex. Not paywalled:

Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know

The citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel

Listen to this (free) article: Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex

Listen to This Article: Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex

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Anyone have any idea what KDT might stand for in the social media context?

Thanks to Kim Iversen for having me on last night, to talk about how a member of congress is threatening me with prison time:

Always fun to have members of congress threaten you with prison:

House Democrat Threatens Twitter Files Journalist with Prosecution and Imprisonment

Rep. Plaskett, citing MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, floats prison time for Matt Taibbi

People are right to complain about paywalling, and if there was a way to use micro-payments to open the door, a lot of independent reporters would probably be for it. The Substack system however has advantages in being relatively censor-proof, while also giving people like me some stability — it’s much better to work for a stable of subscribers than a media corporation.

“Wikileaks coined the term, ‘Intelligence agency of the people,’” says Stella Assange, Julian’s wife. “Bellingcat went with for the people.” More:

The Press is Now Also the Police

As fallout from the Discord leak continues, the undisguised partnerships of media, intelligence, and law enforcement come into more painful relief

New article: “The Press is Also the Police”

The Press is Now Also the Police

As fallout from the Discord leak continues, the undisguised partnerships of media, intelligence, and law enforcement come into more painful relief