Project Mockingbird was a secret CIA operation that hired journalists to write stories on behalf of the US Government. It began in the early 50’s, that much we know. It was a way for the United States to steer the public discourse via the CIA. At the time it was used to dispel Communism. But once the job was done, what happened to Project Mockingbird? Many have simply acknowledged it’s existence and moved on, relegating it to the ‘dustbin’ of history. But it begs the question, why would the CIA abandon such a mechanism of control? The short answer is; they didn’t.
Wouldn’t it be striking if Project Mockingbird lived on in it’s newest iteration, renamed ‘Twitter’, ironically with a bird logo? Let’s pause there for a minute. What other steps do we know of, that the US Government has taken to influence it’s citizens? Apart from the legacy media, more recently, there was Facebook.
Back in the early 2000’s, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) had been running a project called “LifeLog”. The purpose of the project was to track a person’s entire existence, whatever they say, do, write, you get the picture. On February 4, 2004, DARPA abruptly cancelled LifeLog and never provided a reason. You see on the very same day, Facebook launched. Is Facebook the public face of the DARPA LifeLog project?
But let’s get back to the (mocking)bird themed app. We know it has the capability to suppress stories, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story. It can remove people from the public square. It can promote tweets into the public sphere and provide the illusion of consensus. It’s been often criticized of censoring Conservatives, and indeed permanently banned a sitting President of the United States.
What was fascinating, however, was what happened when Elon Musk offered to purchase it. After much fretting and attempts to sabotage the deal, it was accepted on April 25. Not even a week later, the White House announced the incredibly aptly named, “Ministry of Truth” on April 28. One could almost be blamed for thinking that the government lost a critical asset on April 25 and had to replace it immediately.
Unfortunately for them, the mask has slipped. The Ministry of Truth is an obvious arm of the government. Twitter was not.
"The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." -Morpheus
The purpose of the Government is to work on behalf of it’s electorate. You do not have to accept sending your children to war. You do not have to accept medical interventions that you do not want. You do not have to accept high taxes and inflation. It’s long past time that we reminded them of this.