The UK government worked with social media and A.I. firms to surveil and censor critics of coronavirus lockdowns, a bombshell report says.
The UK government worked with social media and A.I. firms to surveil and censor critics of coronavirus lockdowns, a report has claimed.
Officials within the UK government reportedly worked clandestinely with social media companies, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter as well as A.I. firms to monitor critics of the lockdown regime, as well as to identify and ultimately censor speech criticising the draconian government policy., the claims bear many similarities to the so-called “Twitter files”, which revealed how U.S. authorities worked hand-in-glove with social media firms to censor criticism of government COVID-19 policy.
To achieve this aim, the organisation reportedly worked closely with social media corporations as well as firms specialising in the use of Artificial Intelligence, the latter of which used the advanced technology to scour the net for messaging critical of government narratives on COVID-19.
Many posts critical of government lockdown rules were said to have eventually been brought to the attention of social media firms by the CDU, which was given the status of a so-called “trusted flagger”, allowing them to fast-track censorship requests. Although none of the social media companies involved were legally required to take content down just by virtue of it being flagged,speculates that firms may have been pressured to do so due to the fact the requests were coming from the government.
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