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[[File:Full-spectrum-cyber-effects-final-p4-large.gif|right|300px|thumb|US Government document from 2010 part of the Snowden leaks and sharing agreements with the [[UK]]. The [[Five Eyes]] program of the English speaking world (United States, United Kingdom, [[Canada]], [[Australia]], and [[New Zealand]]) use [[social media]] for “[[propaganda]],” “[[deception]],” “mass messaging,” “pushing stories”, and "discrediting” the intelligence agencies' enemies with false information spread online.<ref>https://theintercept.com/document/2014/04/04/full-spectrum-cyber-effects/</ref>]]
The '''Media-intelligence complex''' also known as the '''Censorship Industrial Complex''' is an informal alliance between the nation's [[intelligence community]] and the [[mainstream media]] which seen together is a vested interest influencing [[public opinion]] and [[policy]].<ref>https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/trump-is-challenging-the-whole-cia-media-nexus/</ref> A driving factor in this relationship between the [[government]] and corporate media is that both sides benefit. 

The term has come to be used in reference to the system behind the intelligence community of the [[United States]], where it is most prevalent. Its origin is borrowed from a term in the farewell address of President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], warning of the dangers of the [[military-industrial complex]]. Unlike the [[military]], there is no tradition of outside [[civilian]] control of the Intelligence Community, which has exploded in size and influence since Eisenhower's day.