U.S. Withdraws from Fight Against Disinformation

A consequence of the Twitter Files France? More likely, the implementation of the freedom of expression pillar of U.S. foreign policy, announced by JD Vance in his Munich speech.

The Financial Times reports that the United States has decided to withdraw from international efforts to combat so-called “disinformation” coming from “hostile states.” The announcement was made to European countries in a State Department letter that renounces all agreements concluded under the Biden administration. It is also the first live round fired in warning against the democratic monstrosity that is the DSA.

In the West, the fight against disinformation is in fact a war waged by states against their own people. Foreign interference—long a fixture of international relations—serves merely as a pretext. Let us recall that a not-insignificant portion of the French press before the war was financed by Mussolini’s Italy and Nazi Germany, that after the war it was supported by equally indirect means from the United States, and that today, a host of interests far from national—led by the European Union and major American foundations—are at work. The real target is dissenting opinion that dares question those in power. These powers, across the West, are gripped by a paranoia that veers into totalitarianism. We are told this is an information war waged by evil totalitarian regimes against the virtuous Western democracies. Not so.

As Jacob Siegel highlighted in a long essay we translated, in the United States the apparatus originally designed to wage the ‘war on terror’ abroad was swiftly turned inward against Americans beginning with the election of Barack Obama.

[ Désinformation ] Guide pour comprendre la manipulation du siècle, par Jacob Siegel

The Twitter Files—first published in the United States by Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, then in Brazil, and finally last week in France—revealed the existence of a well-funded censorship-industrial complex. This complex, made up of state agencies, foundations, think tanks, NGOs, and academic institutions, works to tightly control public discourse through circuitous means. It operates across the entire Western sphere. Its principles were first conceived in France in the 1970s, then adopted by the U.S. Democratic Party, its financial backers, and a faction of the federal state, who sent them back to us in the early 2010s—at the very same moment when wokeism, the American transformation of French Theory was also shipped back across the Atlantic.

Regarding the Twitter Files France, we recommend that you go beyond the published internal emails and read the full report, available here in both the original English version and its French translation.

🚨TWITTER FILES – FRANCE

The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the hunt for information that does not conform to official narratives is all the more legitimate given that the ‘Memoranda of Understanding’—agreements ostensibly aimed at combating Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and other disinformation—signed under the Biden administration were in fact designed to circumvent the First Amendment by outsourcing to the European Union a form of censorship that would be unconstitutional in the United States.