2023-04-28 14:15:00
DEBRIEFING – Andrew Lowenthal is an essayist, researcher affiliated with theInstitute for Network Cultures from the University of Amsterdam and independent producer. He is dedicated to the defense of digital rights and publishes his thoughts on the subject, in particular on the platformSubstack, via son compte NetworkAffects.
An ardent defender of freedom of expression for many years, he has observed with the eye of a digital economy expert, the abuses that have led to a massive phenomenon of online censorship.
Lowenthal also collaborated with freelance journalist Matt Taibbi, one of the pioneers of the Twitter Files scandal: he too joined the investigation into these internal documents to the so-called bluebird platform delivered by its new owner Elon Musk.
Numerous revelations as a result have shown how large-scale censorship practices were triggered, mixing the media, political, industrial and even military spheres, linked to intelligence.
Today, in this first debriefing, we evoke the experience that Andrew had in front of this “industrial complex of censorship” which nevertheless presents itself in the fight “against disinformation”, in Asian countries and in Europe.
Based on his analysis published in French yesterday on France-Evening, we will try to understand this time in the Original Version (the interview is being translated), how the media and civil society, instead of defending their independence and freedom of expression, have sunk into an esteemed business to several hundred million dollars (or even more) in which the army or industry, such as Big Pharma, can intervene against all odds.
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