Source: Brownstone Institute
by Andrew Lowenthal
“Since October of 2024, liber-net has been researching federal MDM funding to inform a set of policy proposals for how the US government-funded wing of the Censorship-Industrial Complex might be dismantled. … After reviewing almost 1,100 awards, we included almost 900 in the database. The total value of those awards is roughly 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. All this sits against the backdrop of the deteriorating Trump 2.0 record on free speech. While there seems to be less government involvement in online speech, the snatching of students off the street (often digitally assisted) or micro-management of private university policy should make anyone wary – such approaches could also easily cross into the online realm. Breadth over accuracy seems to be the rule of the day, and it is tarnishing the genuine need for reforms.” (05/27/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-the-us-government-built-the-anti-disinformation-field/