#Censorship

Who flagged what to whom between 2018 and 2024: the Stanford Internet Observatory and its two partnerships, the Global Disinformation Index, NewsGuard, the DFRLab and Hamilton 68, the Aspen commission; the NSF, GEC and CISA money; Murthy v. Missouri and Hines v. Stamos; the 2024-26 collapse and the visa bans. With the strongest version of the defense, which the court record partly supports.

Who can take content down, slow a network, or pull the plug — country by country. China’s Great Firewall, the EU’s DSA, India’s shutdown record, the US/UK platform-and-statute layer. The component the Convergence Index scores.

Who decides what speech survives, country by country — China’s pre-publication review, the EU’s DSA, India’s takedown rules, the US private-governance layer and the UK’s Online Safety Act duties. The component the Convergence Index scores.

The Twitter Files, all 19 installments: the FBI relationship, Hamilton 68, the Virality Project, and the government-to-platform flagging channel — with primary receipts and the downstream litigation.

Automated detection accounts for over 90% of content actions. In 2021, Meta claimed AI proactively removed 97% of hate speech before anyone reported it.