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The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media.

The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.

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[–] HexBroke@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi

To be fair he was pretty capable of that already when he flipped out about the prospect of being cancelled for his fictional accounts of what, raping trafficked Eastern European women or something