As with many issues, Revolver News has been at the bleeding edge of exposing the disinformation censorship industry and the major players who operate in it. Our pieces on Brandy Zadrozny, Nina Jankowicz, Renee DiResta, and Rick Stengel, just to name a few, are classics in the genre. Thanks principally to Elon’s acquisition of Twitter, the exposures of the Twitter Files, and Donald Trump’s historic victory, the censorship industry, which reached a high-water mark in 2020, is now in substantial retreat, at least domestically. Many of the premiere censorship think tanks like the Stanford Internet Observatory are on the chopping block, as are many censorship NGOS, and of course the major global public square media platform Twitter is under new, free-speech aligned management.
We were thrilled to see expert Mike Benz—without question the world’s authority on this subject—on the Joe Rogan show to offer a master class in exposing the censorship cartel and further accelerate the demise of our would-be censorship class.
Nonetheless, there are some remnants of the censorship industry during this lame duck period of Biden’s presidency (we suppose it was always lame duck in a way). One of these remnants is schoolmarm archetype Jessica Brandt, an alleged AI expert who currently runs the so-called Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) housed within the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI).
What is the FMIC exactly? Its website at the DNI tells us the following:
FMIC is led and staffed by a diverse team of professionals from across the IC focused on mitigating threats to democracy and U.S. national interests from foreign malign influence.
FMIC serves as the primary U.S government organization for integrating intelligence pertaining to FMI, which entails managing the IC’s collection resources, building partnerships, and advancing strategic analysis, while protecting the privacy and civil liberties of the American people.
FMIC also houses the Election Threats Executive (ETE), which serves as the IC’s coordinating and integrating authority on all election security activities, initiatives, and programs. In this role, FMIC leads the IC’s efforts to identify and assess foreign malign influence and interference in U.S. elections.
“Threats to democracy,” “foreign interference,” and “election threats” are all censorship predicates with which we’re intimately familiar by now. Recall the now-notorious censorship agency CISA, housed within the DHS, that used its mandate to protect election infrastructure as a pretext to censor free speech of American citizens. […]
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