Mike Benz

My foundation published it.

about this strange web in 2018 that was established, funded to the tune of millions of dollars jointly by three government and quasi-government agencies, the US State Department, USAID, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

You know, the State Department is

formally sets U.S.

foreign policy for the region.

You have USAID, which is supposed to be this independent agency, but it's essentially logistical support for the State Department.

It's sort of plausibly deniable support for either the State Department, the Pentagon, or the CIA.

Many times USAID has been busted as a CIA front, and we can go through that.

If your audience is curious, it's a...

It's kind of an incredible tale of how much – I'm actually curious if you in your time either in the SEALs or as a contractor ever ran into USAID as a strange player in some of the side stories.

But the fact is, is these institutions pump millions of dollars into – in the U.S.,

into Brazilian institutions.

So they pump the money into Brazilian university centers who do thought leadership on countering disinformation, into legal scholars in Brazil who formulate policy and help develop the legislative anti-misinformation laws or anti-fake news laws, who serve on the advisory councils, who

essentially helped make this consensus decision about who should be censored by the Brazilian TSE.

And even many of the partnered flaggers to actually target who should be censored in Brazil are U.S.

State Department and USAID-funded institutions,

U.S.

National Endowment for Democracy-funded institutions, like the Atlantic Council, for example, which actually serves as one of the trusted flaggers of the Brazilian TSE Court.

De Mores, his court has about 70 of these trusted flaggers in its program.

And one of them is the Atlantic Council.