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The Emily Maitlis MacTaggart Lecture

The News Agents

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The Impo War's Host Is Not a Conspiracy Theorist

We need to be braver about explaining the pressures under which we come and our own responses to them. The impo war's host, alex jones, is not a conspiracy theorist in the sense he believes the rot he peddles. He peddles it to make money from subscribers to whom he then sells dietary supplements. Let's not intellectualize and debate the merits of this as free speech any more than we would fake medicines. This is just a business model. Tis is often a precursor to the rejection of legitimate checus and balances. We should ask why they're so afraid of scrutiny. And i hope that instead of the cliched stagecraft of supporter x versus supporter

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