How Constitutional Liberties Moved Into Hidden Algorithms | Jacob Siegel
From American Thought Leaders by The Epoch Times
June 6, 2026 · 1h 25m
About this episode
Jacob Siegel discusses the evolution of information control and its impact on constitutional liberties in the digital age.
🏆Sponsor: FreedomProject Academy enrollment open now! 10% discount on tuition w/code: EPOCH10 Click here: https://ept.ms/ATL—FPE There are few people who understand the machinery behind modern disinformation and censorship better than Jacob Siegel. He’s a special features editor at Tablet Magazine and author of the new book “The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control.” In this episode, we trace the origins of modern information control, from President Woodrow Wilson’s propaganda office during World War I and President Barack Obama’s “whole-of-society” framework, to the policing of information during the COVID-19 pandemic. He breaks down how government agencies, major tech platforms, and large nonprofits can work together behind the scenes to control who gets to speak and who does not, and what ideas are expressed and which are obscured. “If you can control the information, you can control the society,” Siegel said. And the digital age makes this possible to a degree never reached before, he added. So, how has this transformed our society and our liberties? “The principles of the constitutional order, the principles of the liberal nation state have begun to be…
People in this episode
Guest: Jacob Siegel
Topics covered
- disinformation
- censorship
- information control
- constitutional liberties
- digital age
- political regime
Keywords
- disinformation
- censorship
- constitutional order
- digital code
- information control
- political regime
- freedom of speech
Sponsors
FreedomProject Academy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Tablet Magazine, The Epoch Times, President Woodrow Wilson, President Barack Obama
Books & works: The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control
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