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Episode 28: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

America This Week

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Do You Know What's Happening in the World?

We never needed a gazillion dollar anti disinformation complex. We had this thing called the US Information Agency. The U.S. government has certainly has a right to write up a report, put it out on Voice of America or publish it abroad in the embassies. And that's what USAIA did for decades. Then it was closed down. Then they recreated it in the form of GEC but it's a totally different model. Instead of doing this public reports, which they did before, being cheap, they're now pumping money, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to God knows what organizations to do. "God is very different from just simply answering disinformation," he says

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