Censorship in the digital age does not look like old-fashioned book burning. Under the guise of combating misinformation, the US government funds universities, ostensibly to analyze social-media trends - but in truth, to help censor the Internet.
A lawsuit against the Biden administration in the case that became Murthy v. Missouri uncovered emails in which federal officials threatened to penalize social-media companies unless they complied with orders to banish users who posted speech contrary to the administration's priorities.
These academics served as a front for the government's censorship policy, essentially laundering it in the name of science. Yet these prestigious universities are violating the prime directive of academic research: to do no harm to its subjects.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and revealed similar evidence in the 'Twitter Files,' the public first learned that university misinformation research teams, funded by the government, actively participated in those censorship efforts.
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