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How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the internet and US policy

Source: mitTechReview August 11, 2026 · 10:58
How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the internet and US policy
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I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025.  That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and China, was facing imminent shutdown—the next day.  And the reason? R/FIMI, as the office…
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MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was founded in 1899 as The Technology Review, and was re-launched without the leading article in its name on April 23, 1998, under then publisher R. Bruce Journey. In September 2005, it was changed, under its then editor-in-chief and publisher, Jason Pontin, to a form resembling the historical magazine.

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Beijing
Region
East Asia & Pacific
Income level
Upper middle income
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