Internal documents from USAID reveal a disturbing initiative to promote widespread censorship practices across various sectors, advocating for tactics like 'Advertiser Outreach' to financially throttle disfavored media sources. The agency endorses private sector censorship strategies and proposes additional censorship practices and techniques.
Key Points
USAID promotes censorship practices through initiatives like 'Advertiser Outreach'
The agency endorses private sector censorship strategies and proposes additional censorship measures
The primer advocates for 'media literacy' initiatives to condition citizens to distrust alternative media
USAID targets gamers and gaming sites for censorship
Controversial censorship techniques like Google's 'Redirect Method' and 'prebunking' are endorsed