by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News
Soon after the social media “purge”
of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top
neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was caught
stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages
on Facebook and Twitter was “just the beginning” of a concerted effort
by the U.S. government and powerful corporations to silence online
dissent within the United States and beyond.
While a few, relatively uneventful
months in the online news sphere have come and gone since Fly made this
ominous warning, it appears that the neoconservatives and other standard
bearers of the military-industrial complex and the U.S. oligarchy are
now poised to let loose their latest digital offensive against
independent media outlets that seek to expose wrongdoing in both the
private and public sectors.
As MintPress News Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh recently wrote, MintPress was informed that it was under review by an organization called Newsguard Technologies, which described itself to MintPress
as simply a “news rating agency” and asked Muhawesh to comment on a
series of allegations, several of which were blatantly untrue. However,
further examination of this organization reveals that it is funded by
and deeply connected to the U.S. government, neo-conservatives, and
powerful monied interests, all of whom have been working overtime since
the 2016 election to silence dissent to American forever-wars and
corporate-led oligarchy..
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