Google Launches "Pre-Bunking" Censorship Campaign to Destroy Independent Media

Before the 2024 election later this year, Google claims that its "pre-bunking" censorship operation would remove the last remaining independent media outlets from the Internet.

Before the 2024 election later this year, Google claims that its "pre-bunking" censorship operation would remove the last remaining independent media outlets from the Internet

Reuters claims that Google is getting ready to start a major push to eliminate independent media companies and producers. Later this year, the campaign will go from Europe to America:

In June, EU citizens will elect a new European Parliament to pass policies and laws in the region and lawmakers fear the spread of misinformation online could sway voters.

France, Poland and Germany accused Russia on Monday of putting together an elaborate network of websites to spread pro-Russian propaganda.

Europe’s Digital Services Act, which comes into force this week, will require very large online platforms and search engines to do more to tackle illegal content and risks to public security.

From this spring, Google’s internal Jigsaw unit which operates to tackle threats to societies, will run a series of animated ads across platforms such as TikTok and YouTube in five EU countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland.

Building on previous campaigns the company has tested in Germany and central Europe, Jigsaw said the new project was an opportunity to reach citizens in countries with some of the largest number of voters in the EU, utilising the company’s local expertise in these regions.

The ads will feature so-called ‘prebunking’ techniques, developed in partnership with researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol, aimed at helping viewers identify manipulative content before encountering it…

‘We’ve spent so much time having these really polarised debates. Our democracy is at stake, and the temperature just keeps getting higher and higher,’ said Beth Goldberg, head of research at Jigsaw.”

Via the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, Armageddon Prose reports:

* Skilled liberals are enthralled with any comparison involving a virus, when a perceived societal problem is transformed into a pseudo-Public Health concern with a mere click of a mouse and intense promotion.