by Eileen Guo from MIT Technology Review on (#77M2B)
I first heard the term censorship-industrial complex" on April 15, 2025. That's when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and China, was facing imminent shutdown-the next day. And the reason? R/FIMI, as the office...