The Brookings Institution senior fellow Darrell M. West has produced a kind of a “post mortem” of Kamala Harris’ failed presidential bid – and an attempt to “explain” the success of Donald Trump and Republicans.
One of West’s takeaways is that what opponents of such efforts refer to as censorship (i.e., “content moderation”) must continue, and increase in this post election period.
The write-up is titled, “How disinformation defined the 2024 election narrative,” and doesn’t come from just any think tank: Brookings is an influential group funded by Big Tech (Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft) but also “philanthropic” arms of financial giants like JPMorgan Chase and Mastercard.
And Brookings has in the past taken a pro-censorship stance, which it clearly continues to do.
