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Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi have continued their reporting on the “Censorship Industrial Complex” with a new piece on an odious organisation called the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League. Their revelations provide fresh details about the early history of the public-private campaign to censor the internet in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, and I have to say that this is one of the most amazing and bizarre stories I have ever encountered.

The CTI League appear to be an organisation cobbled together in 2020 from two main factions. The first comprised a group of computer security experts and military/intelligence contractors put together by a (former?) Israeli intelligence official named Ohad Zaidenberg during the early months of the pandemic, originally (and allegedly) for the purposes of protecting hospital computer systems from security threats. They were soon joined by separate group around an eccentric “UK defence researcher” named Sara-Jayne Terp, who believes that social media “misinformation” campaigns were responsible for Trump’s election and that these campaigns have to be countered in the same way as cybersecurity threats. Terp developed an array of censorship strategies she called the “Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques” (AMITT) Framework. These were first applied by CTI League, and have since been rechristened “DISARM.” In this form, Terp’s tactics have been used for “defending democracy, supporting pandemic communication and addressing other disinformation campaigns around the world, by institutions including the European Union, the United Nations and NATO.”

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The framework has helped establish new institutions, including the Cognitive Security ISAO, the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg and OpenFacto’s analysis programme, and has been used in the training of journalists in Kenya and Nigeria. To illustrate, with one other specific example, DISARM was employed within the World Health Organization’s operations, countering anti-vaccination campaigns across Europe. The use of framework methodology enabled the coordination of activities across teams and geographies, and also – critically – across multiple languages, eliminating the need to translate text by matching actions to numbered tactics, techniques and procedures within the framework.

The framework has helped establish new institutions, including the Cognitive Security ISAO, the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg and OpenFacto’s analysis programme, and has been used in the training of journalists in Kenya and Nigeria. To illustrate, with one other specific example, DISARM was employed within the World Health Organization’s operations, countering anti-vaccination campaigns across Europe. The use of framework methodology enabled the coordination of activities across teams and geographies, and also – critically – across multiple languages, eliminating the need to translate text by matching actions to numbered tactics, techniques and procedures within the framework.

That’s right, the NAFO Twitter scourge, lockdown-promotion bots, weird vaccinator social media propaganda and god knows what else, all look to be downstream of Terp, AMITT and the CTI League.

Then, I started looking more closely into Terp and this AMITT Framework specifically, and I decided all of that could wait for another day.

Obviously the insidious intent and scale of Terp’s tactics, and their clear violations of the United States Constitution, make all of this reprehensible. At the same time, the absolute hamfisted idiocy of AMITT and the entire “MisinfoSec” approach to internet censorship is a thing to behold. Our oppressors are dangerous, malign and powerful people who want nothing good for us, but they are also just some of the dumbest sods you can imagine.

What happened here is fairly clear: The American and British political establishments developed a new fear of social media following the great populist backlashes of 2016. Suddenly, they wanted very badly to do something about the malicious misinformation they imagined to be proliferating on Facebook and Twitter. A whole tribe of opportunist insects like Terp were eager to meet this demand, snag lucrative contracts, and perhaps even (in the words of the Shellenberger/ Gutentag/ Taibbi informant) “become part of the federal government.” To do this, they shopped about a bunch of transparently pseudoscientific graphs and charts, laden with obfuscatory jargon, and amazingly they weren’t laughed out of the room. You just have to imagine that everybody involved in this scene is a knuckle-dragging retard who knows exactly nothing about how social media works. We must be talking about soccer moms and geriatric index-finger typists who can barely log into Facebook. When they see an edgy internet meme with a lot of retweets their mind immediately goes to Russia, and when a global warming sceptic stumbles into their feed they assiduously reply with links to Wikipedia articles about the Scientific consensus on climate change. They can never figure out why everybody is always laughing at them. It must be Putin, that must be why.

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