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How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policyWorldPing

This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading.

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