It’s not just censorship – it’s coordination. In Episode 2 of Deep Dive, we go inside the censorship-industrial complex with @MikeBenzCyber, @NakedHedgie, @laszloan, and @LucyKomisar.
USAID. Soros. Internews. OCCRP. Bellingcat. They say they support democracy. But from Hungary to Brazil, Slovakia to the U.S., they’ve become the new information warlords.
This isn’t about truth.
It’s about power and who controls the story.
DEEP DIVE Episode 2 – ONLY on 𝕏
00:10 – “The Blob”: Pentagon, State, USAID, donors, and 10,000+ NGOs – all moving in sync.
02:15 – Internews trained 9,000 journalists and reached 778M people…in one year.
03:47 – Reagan’s CIA workaround: how Internews and NED were born after Church Committee fallout.
05:09 – Internews’s playbook: media ops for regime change in Brazil, Serbia, Belarus, and more.
06:42 – “They glorify protests. Amplify resistance. Demonize governments.”
08:02 – Censorship business model: media pressure + ad boycotts + AI.
08:33 – Hungary’s 2022 election: $10M in foreign influence and NGO pipelines exposed.
10:04 – How USAID money is laundered through subgrants to influence media and activism.
11:38 – “This wasn’t about aid. It was political warfare with U.S. tax dollars.”
11:54 – “Pentagon money goes offshore.” @LucyKomisar on how Lichtenstein & Luxembourg hide the flow.
13:16 – OCCRP and Bellingcat: same fake HQ in Amsterdam – a glorified PO box.
14:51 – OCCRP: “We launder money for other journalists.”
16:29 – Bellingcat isn’t independent, it’s an intel proxy with NATO ties.
18:03 – MH17: How unverified claims became global consensus.
19:51 – @MikeBenzCyber: “AI is the weapon. This is the New Manhattan Project for censorship.”
21:05 – Germany’s NetzDG law sparked a global AI censorship arms race.
22:32 – 859M tweets scanned in 2020. 22M flagged. One election.
23:42 – EU’s censorship network: think tanks, academia, public funds — and no oversight.
24:40 – @NakedHedgie: “My book was banned twice for challenging a Western narrative.”
25:31 – Amazon deletes your book. And your reviews. And your voice.
26:25 – “Every post is filtered. Every view is ranked. This is algorithmic control.”
27:46 – Who codes the AI…controls the world.
29:01 – CCDH’s STAR framework: the UN-backed blueprint for silencing “unapproved” news.
DEEP DIVE: $500 MILLION IN MEDIA FUNDING. BUT WHO’S CALLING THE SHOTS BEHIND THE HEADLINES?
It’s not just censorship – it’s coordination.
In Episode 2 of Deep Dive, we go inside the censorship-industrial complex with @MikeBenzCyber, @NakedHedgie, @laszloan, and @LucyKomisar.… https://t.co/l0r7FapH1A pic.twitter.com/bwPmM4FlWa
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) July 6, 2025