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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Politics of Disinformation

The political class is panicking over its inability to impose borders on the public discourse. Traditional media and elete institutions of the sort you just mention have always fancied themselves as the gate keepers of objective truth. There's money to be made in telling people that there is a, you know, unprecedented crisis of information; we can clean it up for you.

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