a number of cases, to deem whole categories of information and inquiry so dangerous that they were off limits, lest one who was inquiring into those categories even accidentally spread Russian disinformation. So all of this seemed to happen very rapidly. It was obviously tied to this larger narrative about Donald Trump's, what we now know to be a false narrative about Donald Trump's connections to the Kremlin. And it was being used to fundamentally alter not only the explicit rules of the American political system, but also the underlying political philosophy of American society with its emphasis on freedom of speech and freedom of association. So having noticed this, I started to look into it. And what I found was that it was a deliberate and coordinated strategy carried out by particular government agencies in concert with a particular set of government-aligned NGOs that were then passed through essentially credulous and compliant press outfits. And I'm talking about, you know, not (16/44)
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