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Fight against ‘malinformation’ is censorship by government proxy

Disinformation and misinformation have always been contested categories, defined by subjective judgment. But malinformation is even more clearly in the eye of the beholder.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 22, 2023

The Crusade Against 'Malinformation' Explicitly Targets Inconvenient Truths

The legal challenge to censorship by proxy highlights covert government manipulation of online speech.

Reason · Mar 22, 2023

Researchers Pressured Twitter To Treat COVID-19 Facts as 'Misinformation'

The latest Twitter Files shows a partnership between Stanford University researchers and government-funded organizations encouraged social media companies to police true information.

Reason · Mar 17, 2023

Phony cybersecurity regulation

Episode 441 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Reason · Feb 7, 2023

Twitter Files: Employees Knew the Media's Favorite Russian Bots List Was Fake

"I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is."

Reason · Jan 27, 2023

The FBI Paid Twitter $3.4 Million for Processing Requests

The latest Twitter Files installment shows the FBI paid Twitter millions of dollars to cover the costs of processing the agency's requests. Yikes.

Reason · Dec 19, 2022

FBI 'told Twitter to take action over jokes it flagged as misinformation'

Latest edition of the Twitter Files by Matt Taibbi says the FBI relationship with the social media platform is 'constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary'

Wales Online · Dec 19, 2022

Twitter Files: The FBI Frequently Flagged Joke Tweets, Asked for Moderation

Maybe the FBI has something better to do with its time?

Reason · Dec 16, 2022

Sifting Through the Twitter Files: Live With Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller

Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live analysis of the internal Twitter documents recently published by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger.

Reason · Dec 15, 2022

Elon Musk is using the Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories

The Twitter CEO's selective release of internal communications largely corroborate what is already known about the messy business of policing a large social network.

WEKU · Dec 14, 2022