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WHO’s behind Australia’s censorship industrial complex

Orwell wouldn’t be surprised

27 May 2023

9:00 AM

27 May 2023

9:00 AM

On Monday, thanks to Liberal Senator for South Australia Alex Antic, we discovered that the Australian government is a member of a global censorship industrial complex.

When Elon Musk opened up Twitter’s internal communications to investigative journalists starting late last year, they discovered that the US government was using current and former officials from the FBI, the CIA, and the Department of Homeland Security who were working with NGOs and university think tanks to censor Americans on social media.

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