Lawfare Daily: Eileen Guo on Whether “the Censorship-Industrial Complex” Actually Exists
Summary
Lawfare senior editor Michael Feinberg interviews Eileen Guo about her investigation into the "censorship industrial complex" narrative. The episode traces how far-right figures like Mike Benz and Stephen Miller built a network of nonprofits and media outlets to frame government and academic disinformation monitoring as political censorship. Guo details how this movement gained traction through the Twitter Files and congressional hearings, leading to the dismantling of State Department offices and the defunding of civil society groups. The discussion concludes with the assessment that the U…
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