what is a broad sociotechnological revolution on the order of the printing press and one which has undermined the kind of centralized narrative authority that you were describing was still in place in 2003, one that has had that effect in many places, not only in the United States and one that has had that effect on many institutions within the United States, not simply on the government or the sort of neoliberal establishment. They took that and they insisted that it was all Russian disinformation all along. And I find that to be implausible on its face. It's clear that Russia has attempted to have a destabilizing effect. It's clear that Russia spreads propaganda in much the same way that other countries, including the United States, attempt to seed propaganda into foreign information ecosystems. But it's not by any means clear that this has had a profound effect in terms of changing political attitudes in the United States. And when you look more closely at the evidence, the largest (24/44)
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