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Disinformation units: who watches the watchers?
Governments built units to fight foreign disinformation. The operations they fight are real. So are the documented cases where the units turned to their own citizens, domestic media and opinions. What the record shows, and who watches the watchers.
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What censorship looks like in 2026: from removal to quiet demotion
Censorship in 2026 is less often a ban and more often a ranking change, a lost ad or a keyboard that won't finish your phrase. The six forms, documented cases from every side, and how to tell which one is happening to you.
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The gatekeepers you don't see: search ranking and autocomplete
Ranking decides what you see first. A 2015 study said biased search results can shift undecided voters by 20%; later vote-count claims are contested. Real users' clicks matter more than the algorithm. And on LSN News one story ranked 1st in Italian and 70th in Hindi.
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Governments asking platforms: Murthy v. Missouri and the Twitter Files
Three courts read the same emails between US officials and platforms and reached three different answers. What the rulings found, what the Twitter Files showed and did not show, what Zuckerberg admitted, and what is still disputed.
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The parade under the cloud: Chernobyl and official silence
On 1 May 1986 Kyiv's children marched under fallout, and Romanians were told radiation rose "without danger to the population". How performed normality works, what people lived, and how to notice it.
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The silence you choose: self-censorship, chilling effects and NDAs
After the Snowden revelations, views of sensitive Wikipedia articles fell nearly 30% with no ban at all. The evidence on chilling effects, self-censorship surveys, NDAs at work, and the rulings on retaliation.
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"Just the old-fashioned grippe": wartime censorship and the 1918 flu
Around 20 September 1918 a federal health officer called the new flu "the plain old 'La Grippe'". Wartime censorship shaped what people were told, and the country that reported honestly got its name on the disease. What it cost.
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The people who told: whistleblowers and what happened to them
From the Pentagon Papers to the Facebook Files: what six whistleblowers and a publisher revealed, what courts later confirmed, and what happened to them, including Assange's 2024 plea. Plus two cases from China and Russia.
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Firewalls and foreign-agent laws in China, Russia and beyond
Seven years for five supermarket price tags. How China's firewall, Russia's 2022 "fakes" law and Europe's new foreign-agent laws make speech costly, what their defenders say, and how Hungary's parliament voted to abolish its sovereignty office in 2026.
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The EU Digital Services Act: what it actually requires
The EU's first DSA fine hit X for blue checks, ads and researcher access, not for speech; later fines on Temu and AliExpress were about illegal products. What the law requires, where supporters and critics find their evidence, and the clashes so far.