Mike Benz
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Hello.
Who are you?
What do you do?
I'm Mike Benz.
I advocate for free speech on the internet.
I like free speech on the internet.
That's a good thing.
You were targeted by the Election Integrity Partnership, the Atlantic Council, the University of Washington, the Stanford Internet Observatory.
Oh, it's worse than I thought.
They did a whole presentation about how you were the origin point of a malinformation incident during the 2020 election cycle, and they tracked— And it was about ballot harvesting, right?
It was about ballot harvesting.
Which is completely true.
Yes.
That's crazy.
But that's the thing about malinformation.
Right.
It started off with disinformation, and then they tried to distinguish miss and dis, and they said, you know, what happens when something is true and we can't even—
engineer a fake fact check.
Fact check, it's just true.
But if people know this is true, they'll think this thing we don't want them to think.