Pinkerton: If Joe Biden Can’t Win in 2024, Maybe AI Can Win for Him

On January 26, journalist Lee Fang—himself a refugee from the left—reported on the efforts of one Brian Murphy, a former FBI agent and onetime head of the intelligence unit at the Department of Homeland Security. Murphy “has proposed that law enforcement and intelligence agencies formalize the process of sharing tips with private sector actors—a ‘hybrid constellation’ including the press, academia, researchers, non-partisan organizations, and social media companies—to dismantle ‘misinformation’ campaigns before they take hold.” So there you have it: The whole lefty apparatus linked up. 

Moreover, Murphy has been working with—you guessed it—AI to further suppress badthink. A British AI company, Logically, also “maintains a public-facing editorial team that produces viral content and liaisons with the traditional news media.” Fang adds that Logically “differs from other players in this industry by actively deploying what they call ‘countermeasures’ to dispute or remove problematic content from social media platforms.” Now there’s a word: countermeasures. A government well-funded enough to not only detect “disinformation” but then also well-muscled enough to start punching it out. 

Logically has done jobs for the government of the United Kingdom (the Conservative Party, in power for the last 14 years, has operated mostly like liberal Democrats in the U.S., although that could, at long last, be changing), as well as the government of Canada (we all know about its woke leader, Justin Trudeau). Here in the U.S., Logically has gained contracts with the state of Oregon, the city of Chicago, and the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Command (and that’s just what we know about). 

So there’s the vision: Big Tech knows who’s been nice and who’s been naughty and is armed with both carrots and sticks. The hoped-for end result: a “clean” media environment, as judged by, say, Hillary Clinton and enforced by, say, the singing censor Nina Jankowicz. The truth and nothing but the truth!

This vision of news sanitation recalls the 2004 movie The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which the main characters go to a tech service to have their minds wiped of unpleasant memories. So now maybe AI can update: The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless News.

Will this shiny and seamless vision or news hygiene work? Will this tech-totalitarianism succeed? One thing we’ve learned: Folks are kinda stubborn and actually rather hard to fool. Across the world, people have rejected the slickest and most one-sided propaganda in favor of socialism and communism. Back in 2008, we might recall, a very annoyed Barack Obama lamented that people “cling to guns or religion.” And at least a few media outlets will not Obey–one such being Breitbart News. 

So, there’s good reason to hope that Americans—enough of them, at least—will see through this latest “techaganda” push. But don’t think for a moment that it won’t be a fight.