A cyber expert who formerly worked for the U.S. State Department is warning that a scheme outlined in a Stanford University journal regarding “ratings” for news sources could be a digital reboot on the CIA’s MK-ULTRA, a psychedelic mind-control experiment conducted during the Cold War.
An investigative report from Just the News explains the new Journal of Online Trust and Safety has examined a study from researchers in the U.S. and Italy.
And its point is that “you don’t even need fact-checkers to fact-check the story,” according to Mike Benz, a former State official who now leads the Foundation for Freedom Online, a watchdog.
Back in the day, in what was known as Project MK-ULTRA, on which WND has reported multiple times, the CIA experimented on people with procedures and drugs, including LSD, that would weaken them and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture, sensory deprivation, isolation, electroshock and more.
The program ran from 1953 through 1973, and was revealed to the public through various congressional investigations, including the 1975 Church Committee. Many of the details, however, remain obscured since then-CIA chief Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files be destroyed.
Benz explained the new ideology is that social media platforms simply could apply a “scarlet letter” to disfavored news sources, creating a fraud on the public.
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