Lawfare Daily: Eileen Guo on Whether “the Censorship-Industrial Complex” Actually Exists

Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Eileen Guo, co-author with Gisela Perez de Acha and Martin Sona of “How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy (technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1141105/how-id…),” and senior reporter with the MIT Technology Review, to discuss her research into whether the “censorship-industrial complex” was an actually entity or a pretextual justification to dismantle the government’s anti-disinformation apparatus.
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