Mike Benz
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That's how long he had misgivings about this.
Well, part of this is known and part of this can be, the full answer can be easily obtained by our representatives in Congress.
I'll give you one example of this.
in 2021, I believe it was February 2021, about a month into Biden's term, literally brand new, you know, seat barely warm at the State Department USA desks there, USAID put out this
97-page disinformation primer about how to coordinate their whole of society counter disinformation assets, their censorship tentacles into the whole of society.
Again, the government tentacles into the tech platform personnel.
their tentacles into the civil society organizations, their tentacles into the media.
And 31 times in this 97-page document, they cite advertisers and external engagement to advertising companies and advertiser revenue spend pools and advertising exchanges in order to cut off the money flow
to social media platforms and independent websites who don't take the best practices counter disinformation codes that they lay out.
Now, that was obtained through a lawsuit from America First Legal, but that's a formal U.S.
government program dedicated to killing news websites, to killing their advertiser revenue,
And it's all there in black and white that you have the U.S.
government contorting the private sector flow of dollars between independent, arms-length parties, news websites and tech platforms, and advertisers.
And by the way, all these advertisers are almost wholly dependent, I shouldn't say wholly dependent, but they are hugely dependent on U.S.
government contracts.
Four of the... How so?
Well, take for example, there are
four major advertising agency conglomerates.
These are places like Publicis.
and Omnicron.