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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: We donāt need a Ministry of Truth
Description: Full text: Last August, Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade issued a Request for Proposal for services to identify and mitigate āharmful information online as it relates to electionsā (to see the full RFP document, click HERE). The Secretary is concerned with what she refers to as āmisinformation,
disinformation, and malinformationā, or MDM.
According to the RFP, the selected vendor shall review social and online media for alleged instances of MDM on a 24/7 basis, and share relevant information with local stakeholders including the FBI and State Police.
Assuming bids were received, the Secretary of State was sche...