Trump Censorship Tracker by the American Sunlight project @americansunlight.org .
Key categories: suppression of press freedom, retaliation vs critics/whistleblowers, crackdowns on research/academia, dismantling civil rights protections, policing language
This one was just released today. 7/end
Today @americansunlight.org published a report we've been working on all fall, detailing the worrisome connections and quack science in the MAHA movement, the Bolsonaro health ministry's failed COVID policies and President Trump's "gold standard" HHS: americansunlight.substack.com/p/how-maga-u...
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🦃 November
🇬🇧 gave evidence before UK parliament parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
🟰spoke at a Gender Equity Summit on tech organized by California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom
🎃 October
🇷🇺 explained Russia's weaponization of the European Court of Human Rights to launder disinformation americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
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🎒 September
🚫 Partnered with @indicator.media to expose how DSA non-compliant ads for nudifiers were running unchecked in the EU
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🏖️ August
🇳🇴 Partnered with Norwegian environmental advocacy group Bellona to further investigate Russia's weaponization of green energy debates and presented our work at Norway's largest political festival.
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💐 April & May
🚨 Sounded the alarm about American autocracy in European Parliament
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‼️ worked to raise awareness about the censorship lie infecting the State Department americansunlight.substack.com/p/little-mar...
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💐 April
🏛️ Wiped the floor with Matt Taibbi and other "censorship industrial complex" liars in Congress americansunlight.substack.com/p/calling-bs...
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🍀 March
📈 Started tracking Trump's censorship crusade in our weekly Substack newsletter. americansunlight.substack.com/s/last-week-...
🌍 Published a report about Russia's weaponization of environmental and tech issues. static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c...
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A pro-Russian content aggregation network, Pravda, appears to be set up to flood large-language models with pro-Kremlin content, The American Sunlight Project has found. Over the past several months, ASP researchers have investigated 108 new domains and subdomains belonging to the Pravda network, a previously-established ecosystem of largely identical, automated web pages that previously targeted many countries in Europe as well as Africa and Asia with pro-Russia narratives about the war in Ukraine. ASP’s research, in combination with that of other organizations including France’s VIGINUM, brings the total number of associated domains and subdomains to 182. The network’s older targets largely consisted of states belonging to or aligned with the West. Notably, this latest expansion includes many countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North America. It also includes entities other than countries as targets, specifically non-sovereign nations, international organizations, languages, and prominent heads of state. The top objective of the network appears to be duplicating as much pro-Russia content as widely as possible. With one click, a single article could be autotranslated and autoshared with dozens of other sites that appear to target hundreds of millions of people worldwide. ASP researchers also believe the network may have been custom-built to flood large language models with pro-Russia content. The network is unfriendly to human users; sites within the network boast no search function, poor formatting, and unreliable scrolling, among other usability issues. This final finding poses foundational implications for the intersection of disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI), which threaten to turbocharge highly automated, global information operations in the future.
❤️ February
🤖 Coined the concept of "LLM grooming" and released a pioneering report on Russia's use of the tactic. static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c...
🙅🏻♀️ Ran a free online safety training for hundreds of feds worried about getting doxxed by DOGE.
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We’re demanding that governments commit to upholding information integrity as a non-negotiable for climate action. #COP30
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What struck me about Illia’s analysis is how familiar this tactic has become to the United States in such a short time; this sort of lawfare is being used by the MAGA movement to great success, particularly against disinformation researchers.
Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.”
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Every week, @americansunlight.org catalogues the Trump Administration’s most recent attacks on the First Amendment in its “Last Week in Censorship” series. The list of infringements on Americans’ rights to free expression is now worryingly long. 1/
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😶 Via @americansunlight.org: 'Alan Greenblatt, a 20-year veteran journalist and editor of Governing magazine, resigned October 10 after his parent company ordered staff to avoid articles that could “draw the attention of the Trump White House.”' americansunlight.substack.com/p/last-week-...
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“Trump doesn’t even need to see posts from Loomer for them to have an impact,” @ninajankowicz.com told @washingtonpost.com. “Her relationship with the president is well known, and the underlings in the administration need to act quickly to prove their fealty.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It’s not always the loudest voices, it’s the reaction they provoke.
In @washingtonpost.com , @ninajankowicz.com explains how far-right actors test messages online, and how MAGA loyalists in government race to fall in line.
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Don’t forget to stay up to date with ASP on our Substack! We are tracking the Trump Administration’s censorship so you don’t have to in our Last Week in Censorship series. americansunlight.substack.com/p/last-week-...
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"The most engaging content online is often the most enraging content." Check out tips from Nina Jankowicz on how to spot and combat disinformation:
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