Mike Benz explains what we were up against when Biden was super-charging the censorship industrial complex.

There's one person, but that person by themselves is not going to have enough pull to do what needs to be done. That person is the wonderful Sarah Rogers. Sarah Rogers is great. She gets it, you get it. She gets it now. Sarah Rogers is the Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs branch. Yes, one person, and she's an undersecretary. Okay, so think about all the agencies that need to be deployed to take this on.

Let's pull up the list. Okay, let's pull up a list of all the different government agencies that the Biden White House coordinated to create the global censorship industrial complex. This was a full scale inter agency. The Biden White House created an interagency task force, and it was called the information integrity research and development interagency working group. Information Integrity, as we've covered many times, became the preferred phrase after the catastrophe of the disinformation governance board. Nobody knows what the fuck information integrity means.

Who doesn't like information with "high integrity?" How bad could it be? It's the worst. This term means that information can be chunked into two categories, high integrity meaning whitelisted, and low integrity, meaning blacklisted, meaning censored. So information integrity is total control over information, what information you can share on social media, what information can be amplified in algorithms, what information we want foreign countries to make illegal if it supports a political party that we don't want to win the election, etc, etc. So this task force set up in 2021 right away in the Biden administration, made it so that every one of the below US government, federal agencies and departments had the same policy goal they were driving towards, censoring Vaccine Information, censoring election information, censoring climate information, censoring gender information, censoring foreign policy opinions about Ukraine, etc.

Okay, you have your Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, controlling the media, the White House, Domestic Policy Council, DARPA DHS, the Justice Department, The State Department, the FBI NIST. Hello, 911. pancake theory. NIH, the National Science Foundation, the National Security Council, the NSA, goddamn Office of Naval Research, the White House, OSTP, Office of Science and Technology Policy, the ODNI, the friggin Surgeon General's office, USAID, all the way down, down to the damn Census Bureau for censoring immigration information, the gender Policy Council, the Food and Drug Administration, they were all coordinated top down by the White House. ... then it tied together a bunch of civil society partners to help create this whole of society on the outside, including our favorites like Stanford, UW Rutgers, the home of Antifa, nonprofits, corporations, individuals, all answering to this task force, like fucking news guard and Bill Burns, the CIA director's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Aspen Digital, who ran the Hunter Biden censorship pre censorship strategy meeting to pre censor the Hunter Biden laptop story all the way down to the American Association of Retired Persons. This thing hit every demo, black, white, old, young, gay, straight, cis, trans, CIA FDA,

You know what we've got right now, guys, and I'm sorry to say it, I'm not trying to black pill you. I'm trying to white pill you. That you. A tiny little glimpse of a fire is being started. We'll see where it goes. We know we have against all of this, the CIA, the NSA, the ODNI, the State Department, fucking DARPA, Naval Research, every friggin agency, the Justice Department, the FBI, against all this a trade, every intelligence agency, military and statecraft organ of the United States government. For us on the other side, I offer, I offer a fair trade. I offer we but we have a Sarah Rogers. That's where we are right now.

Like to see how the US Army planned to psychologically manipulate foreign populations? It might be especially interesting now that we know that these techniques have now been turned against Americans. Here's Robert Malone's short post along with a link to the army PSYOP manual.

What is a PSYOP? According to p. A3 of the manual:

1.5 PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSYOP)

Psychological Operations are planned to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of PSYOP is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator's objectives.

I then asked Grok:

What types of psyop techniques described in this 1999 Army Psyop manual are being utilized by corporate media today to skew public understanding of what is going on in the world or how to think about it?

Grok's response:

Psyop Techniques from the 1999 Manual and Parallels in Corporate Media

The 1999 Joint Psychological Operations Task Force Headquarters Master Training Guide (CJCSM 3500.08) outlines frameworks for military psyop, focusing on influencing foreign audiences through planned information dissemination, analysis, and evaluation. While it's a military document (canceled in 2004), its principles—such as propaganda, deception, and target analysis—bear resemblance to strategies observed in corporate media today. Corporate media, including major networks and social platforms, often shapes public perception through selective framing, emotional appeals, and rapid narrative amplification, which can skew understanding of global events or issues like politics, economics, and social dynamics.

Below is a table summarizing key techniques from the manual, their descriptions, and observed parallels in modern corporate media. These parallels are drawn from analyses of media practices, including psychographic targeting, misinformation campaigns, and sentiment manipulation. Note that media entities may not intentionally label their actions as "psyop," but the effects align with the manual's methods. Claims are substantiated where possible from diverse sources, including academic studies, investigative reports, and public discourse, representing viewpoints from military, tech, and conspiracy-oriented perspectives.

Click "More" for Grok's table.

These techniques aim to induce favorable attitudes in the manual's context, but in media, they can skew understanding by prioritizing engagement over accuracy—e.g., dividing audiences ("us vs. them") or exploiting biases like Magruder's Principle (reinforcing pre-existing beliefs). Diverse sources note this in politics (e.g., election interference) and business (e.g., market manipulation), with X discussions highlighting perceived ops in everyday news. While not all media actions are deliberate psyops, the patterns enable narrative control at scale.