GLENN GREENWALD—If you go and study fascism in any first-year undergraduate college, you’re going to learn that one of its defining hallmarks, as implemented by Mussolini and then by Hitler, is the merger of corporate and state power, so that there’s no such thing as a private sector ever working at odds with the public sector. The government and corporate power are always merged to control the population: exactly what the Democratic Party, the liberals who support it, and largely the left that supports it as well, are in favor of doing.
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JOHN RACHEL—With the nation divided into red and blue states, the news robots now have the solemn and putatively critical duty to keep us up to date on any shifting of allegiances and rebalancing of the color scheme, milking any incremental addition of a splotch of blue or dash of red for whatever drama they can generate, before cutting to a commercial break. What has this got to do with the mounting crises we find ourselves in?
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JIMMY DORE—Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson recently talked about what he learned during his career in media during an appearance on the “Full Send” podcast, lighting into his corporate media colleagues (and former self) for lying at the behest of the establishment and expressing regret over his past defense of the Iraq War.
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The establishment’s liberaloid media—of which Yahoo! News and Rolling Stone are card-carrying members, despite the latter’s pretension to boutique radicalism—is enraged by Tucker Carlson’s and Mat Taibbi’s revelations, and the uniformity of their response, down to the identical smears being used is proof of that. Even the holy Ken Burns has joined the righteous mob to cast his own stones.
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MATT TAIBBI—We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation “requests” from every corner of government: the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA. For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps 20 quasi-private entities doing the same, including Stanford’s Election Integrity Project, Newsguard, the Global Disinformation Index, and others, many taxpayer-funded. A focus of this fast-growing network is making lists of people whose opinions, beliefs, associations, or sympathies are deemed “misinformation,” “disinformation,” or “malinformation.” The latter term is just a euphemism for “true but inconvenient.”
