Here’s Mike Benz bullshitting Matt Taibbi ab his supposed experience as a State Department insider. Listen to Taibbi eat it up. This is the real origin of the “Censorship Industrial Complex” hoax: an operative selling a rube a lie.
Here’s what happened next: www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1...
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Renee DiResta
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2026-08-14 01:15:18 UTC
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