{
  "id": 592514,
  "title": "How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the Internet and US policy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/how-the-censorship-industrial-complex-is-changing-the-internet-and-us",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T17:58:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MIT Technology Review",
    "slug": "mit-technology-review",
    "url": "https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/11/1141635/how-the-censorship-industrial-complex-is-changing-the-internet-and-us-policy/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025. That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and China, was facing imminent shutdown—the next day. And the reason? R/FIMI, as the office…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}