Mike Benz

OK, so drag me into this.

OK.

All right.

At the same time, I'm an American who speaks prolifically about elections that happen in other countries.

And I do this from an American perspective.

But I am, you know, I have a platform.

My platform.

When I say something about what's happening in Hungary or what's happening in Spain or Germany, France, there are news headlines about it that will say former State Department official Mike Benz, you know, you said this and that becomes a like.

a story or ignites a scandal in a foreign country.

And with the audience that I have, they can drive amplification and they could make the argument that these, this is like American outside interference through some like, you know, because foreigners are,

in our region in Hungary or France or Spain or Brazil or whatever are impacting our own internal dialogue because of the size of the platform they have.

And to me, I think that's fair game.

There's no monetary contribution.

It's not like there's a FARA registration type thing.

It's hard to be able to like have it.

I think there is something beautiful about the global nature of X.

This is like the...

the AI theory of CAPTCHA, right?

It's true.

It's real though.