This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in ri...
Source: [MIT Tech Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1141389/the-download-censorship-conspiracy-theory-first-ai-virus/)