Mike Benz
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And, you know, even all the way down to Reddit, you have the content moderation teams being run by Atlantic Council people, which, again, seven CIA directors on its board.
DHS is disinformation flagger for both.
the 2020 election and COVID-19 was the Atlantic Council, one of these core four.
The Atlantic Council, again, with seven CIA directors and annual funding from the State Department and Pentagon.
Grafica is a huge player in this space, was also partnered with DHS, $7 million in Pentagon funding.
It's actually incubated in the Minerva Initiative, which is the Psychological Operations Research Center of the Pentagon.
So you have this whole back channel
that took years between 2016, 2014, 2016, and 2022 for the Pentagon, for the CIA, for the State Department to all get in place so that the right people could be trusted to censor the right narratives or to adjust the algorithm in the right way.
And bit by bit, in the past 18 months, they have been losing all that.
But the EU is their savior here.
And this is why, again, my foundation published this several months ago,
They said they'd be in full-blown panic for what's happening right now between Congress and the legal pressure and Elon Musk, but they can panic responsibly because they have a trick up their sleeve, which is that the EU Digital Services Act will force the restaffing of those fired representatives.
It will make sure that the back channel stays in place unless the whole company gets bankrupted and shut down.
And this is what they're doing in Brazil.
The State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon, they don't want to kill X. This is not like WikiLeaks.
They don't want to just shut down the operation.
Twitter, X, is an essential instrument of U.S.
statecraft for U.S.
government, USAID, U.S.
State Department-funded proxy groups or political groups to mobilize across the world.