Greg Reese reports on how the US government recruited a web of NGOs and private individuals to censor and subvert people online. The new buzzword is Cognitive Security.
Greg Reese says documents from a whistleblower who participated in the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), through cybersecurity meetings hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, show that the US government recruited NGOs and private individuals to censor and subvert the public domain.
Cognitive Security
Reese goes on to explain that military contractors Sarah Jane Turp and Pablo Brewer of US Special Operations, a primary objective were to replace words like propaganda and censorship with the term cognitive security in the ethos of the cybersecurity industry.
Sarah Jane Turp:
”Cognitive security is the thing you want to have. You want to protect that cognitive layer. Basically, it’s about pollution. So misinformation and disinformation are a form of pollution across the internet.
And just because we’re going to get comments about this, my position on this is clear, has always been clear. We don’t want to remove people’s voices. What we’re trying to remove is artificial megaphones.”
”Most of the time you’re trying to change their belief sets. And in fact, really, deeper than that, you’re trying to change, to shift their internal narrative slightly, or at least use their internal narratives.”
Reese says the third pillar of the information environment is the cognitive dimension i.e. mind control. Brewer claims the cognitive social engineering needs to be customized for Americans.
Pablo Brewer:
”Different audiences are going to require different methods of delivery and different messages. And that’s because they’ve got these pre-existing social and cognitive biases.
If you talk to the average Chinese citizen, they absolutely believe that the Great Firewall of China is not there for censorship. They believe that it’s there because the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party want to protect their citizenry and they absolutely believe that’s a good thing.
If the US government tried to sell that narrative, we would absolutely lose our minds and say, no, no, no, this is a violation of our First Amendment rights. So the in-group and out-group messaging have to be often different.”
NewsVoice will try to find out more about the Great Firewall of China in future articles.
To justify their actions against the public domain is a public-private partnership that can work around violating Americans’ constitutional rights. Turpin and Brewer even admit that they are set up as a private NGO to censor American citizens for the US military, says Reese. The private citizens will do the dirty work under government supervision, so to speak.
Pablo Brewer:
”I wear two hats and I mentioned that one hat is the director of the Donovan Group, which is the military director of the Donovan Group, which is that future studies in think tank.
In my other hat, I’m what they call an innovation officer. I’m one of two innovation officers at Softworks, which is a completely unclassified 501c3 nonprofit that’s funded by the US Special Operations Command.
And that’s so that we can get after non-traditional problems and non-traditional tactics and work with non-traditional partners.”
Greg Reese explained that during the corona years 2020-2023, they targeted people who were protesting the lockdowns and developed the disarm framework, which was employed by the World Health Organization for countering anti-vaccination campaigns.
Greg Reese:
”They subvert social media companies and they report website domains to registrars. To influence public opinion, they create fake accounts and infiltrate private groups. They train influencers to spread their messaging and they pressure banks to cut off people’s accounts.”
Reese suggests interested readers visit his channel on substack, which will be pressing elected officials. Find out more on ReesReport.com. Reese is an editor and producer for Infowars.com. You can find him on InfoWars, Rumble and Substack.
By Torbjorn Sassersson, more from Greg Reese