Report says Twitter, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are among the many main firms ‘onboard’ with a pan-industry monitoring plan that was part of The Virality Project in 2021.
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New info launched on the Twitter Files revealed that the US authorities and main social media firms labored hand-in-hand with Stanford University to censor or restrict true details about Covid-19.
“The Virality Project in 2021 worked with the government to launch a pan-industry monitoring plan for Covid-related content,” tweeted unbiased journalist Matt Taibbi.
“At least six major Internet platforms were ‘onboarded’ … daily sending millions of items for review.”
The objective of the venture, created by Stanford University, was to establish folks on social media who mentioned issues about Covid-19 that the federal government didn’t need them to say.
“Though the Virality Project reviewed content on a mass scale for Twitter, Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, Medium, TikTok, and Pinterest, it knowingly targeted true material and legitimate political opinion, while often being factually wrong itself,” Taibbi continued.
This newest revelation expands what the American public has already been knowledgeable in regards to the lengths to which the federal authorities and huge tech firms went to censor Covid-19 info.
“The Virality Project was a smash success,” mentioned Taibbi. “Government, academia, and an oligopoly of would-be corporate competitors organized quickly behind a secret, unified effort to control political messaging.”
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‘Digital censorship’
When speech the federal government didn’t like was recognized, social media firms had been then requested to censor or limit the visibility of that speech.
“It accelerated the evolution of digital censorship, moving it from judging truth/untruth to a new, scarier model, openly focused on political narrative at the expense of fact,” added Taibbi, who gave an instance of Twitter’s involvement with The Virality Project (VP).
“VP told Twitter that ‘true stories that could fuel hesitancy,’ including things like ‘celebrity deaths after vaccine’ or the closure of a central NY school due to reports of post-vaccine illness, should be considered ‘Standard Vaccine Misinformation on Your Platform,'” mentioned Taibbi.
Taibbi additionally famous that The Virality Project was particularly not primarily based on “assertions of fact,” however moderately “public submission to authority, acceptance of narrative, and pronouncements by figures like Anthony Fauci” who was the chief medical advisor for former president Donald Trump who disseminated nearly all of America’s Covid-19 info in the course of the peak of the pandemic.
“Even in its final report, VP claimed it was misinformation to suggest the vaccine does not prevent transmission, or that governments are planning to introduce vaccine passports,” added Taibbi. “Both things turned out to be true.”
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