Mike Benz

THREAD: Harvard’s top censorship magazine, The Misinformation Review, bragged that “mis/disinfo studies” is “Too Big To Fail,” owing in part to big money flowing from government.

https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/harvard-too-big-to-fail/

2. “Disinfo studies” merges social science (psycho, sociology, comms) w/ computer sciences (AI, machine learning), converging on a common target (law-abiding citizens) to censor on social media. Social science teams make “network maps” of targets for comp sci teams to take down. 

3. Gov’t Money Sustains The Industry:

The Harvard Misinfo Review report begins its “Too Big To Fail” argument by citing “A broad range of funding bodies and governments [that] have devoted significant financial resources” to academic departments involved in censorship studies. 

4. Academia as The Government’s Censorship Mercenary Army: 

@FFO_Freedom showed how in just two years of the Biden Admin, 64 gov’t censorship grants were given to 42 different US universities. This incredible range covers every level of America’s higher ed institutions: 

5. For wonks, here is a database @FFO_Freedom compiled of all the ways academia is being funded by the National Science Foundation for censorship work (ie, ‘mis/disinfo studies’):

https://www.scribd.com/document/609594167/NSF-Government-Grants-for-Mis-Disinformation-FY2021-2022-Raw-Data

6. Harvard as Censorship Thought Leader:

Harvard has 4 different centers all involved in various aspects of social media censorship operations.

- Belfer Center
- Berkman Klein Center
- Shorenstein Center
- Kennedy Center 

7. Academia As Government Censorship Outsourcing Sites:

Harvard Belfer Center was tapped by DHS’s censorship agency, CISA, to lead “disinformation” training sessions for 2020 election officials. Harvard instructed these officials to create “response teams” to censor posts online

8. Academic SuperSpooks 

The Belfer Center’s censorship squad is helmed by a former DOD Chief of Staff and Army intelligence officer whose unit was named the top intelligence unit in the country by the CIA:

9. The Harvard Belfer Center’s spook squad recruited none other than Robbie Mook, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, to lead its “counter-disinformation” ostensibly nonpartisan work with DHS on election censorship:

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/clinton-campaign-manager-who-spread-trump-alfa-bank-hoax-involved-dhs

10. Harvard also recently scooped up Jacinda Ardern for a new censorship job at the Berkman Klein Center there.

Ardern, the former PM of New Zealand, famously decreed her own government the “single source of truth” about Covid and instructed citizens to “dismiss anything else”: 

11. Ardern’s new Harvard censorship job will have her crafting censorship standards to push on tech platforms, pressuring politicians to punish platforms who don’t censor enough, &amp; being the “social science” side of censorship advisory to comp sci teams.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/announcements/jacinda-ardern-appointed-hks-fellowship 

12. The tens of millions of taxpayer dollars flowing to “mis/disinfo studies” at Harvard &amp; 40+ colleges are a giant in-kind contribution to the DNC.

The Harvard report even concedes the entire academic field was born as a response to “Brexit and the election of Donald Trump”: 

13. Naturally, Harvard’s Belfer Center partnered with EIP to drive CISA’s 2020 election censorship effort, perhaps the largest volume of political censorship in human history.

For more on the Harvard-EIP censorship connection, see this FFO report: https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/dhs-censorship-agency-had-strange-first-mission-banning-speech-that-casts-doubt-on-red-mirage-blue-shift-election-events/ 

14. A reminder not to be fooled by Harvard throwing up the word “studies” or “research” for their censorship work:

15. Video explainer of the key points about the “disinfo studies” academic censorship mercenary scam: 