Jacob Siegel

Jacob Siegel, writer, editor, U.S. Army veteran and author of The Information State, explores how the internet created a new form of political rule. He traces intellectual roots from cybernetics to Cold War control. They examine digital swarms, anonymity-driven mass formation, platform power, surveillance entanglement, and proposals for restructuring the internet’s political economy.

Jacob Siegel, journalist and author of The Information State, explains how digital censorship and algorithmic control are reshaping politics. He traces the repurposing of counterinsurgency tools into a disinformation war, the origins of platform power from Pentagon projects, COVID’s radicalizing censorship, and why freedom may have to be asserted from inside technology.

Jacob Siegel, a former Army intelligence officer and author of The Information State, traces how battlefield surveillance tools migrated to daily life. He discusses the Obama-era institutionalization of surveillance, contrasts technocratic and overt control styles, and explores how digital infrastructure enabled a Kafkaesque system that keeps expanding despite repeated failures.