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I am extremely excited and grateful to be joined today by Abby Martin, a American journalist,

a TV presenter, an activist.

For three years, she hosted Breaking the Set on RT and also hosted the Empire Files

as we were talking here today because she has been a victim of the recent slate of kind

of cancellations.

Left cancellations were never framed that way, but why not?

If it gets the additional click, welcome to my faith podcast, Abby.

Thank you so much for having me on.

So, help us understand what has happened on the internet.

So this is, it's kind of the culmination, Bri, of a years-long censorship campaign that

I think that we can trace back specifically to when the algorithms changed in the wake

of the DNI report.

This is the director of national intelligence in 2017 putting out what was supposed to

be the end-all-be-all report dissection of how Russian media and Russian propaganda undermined

our so-called democracy and essentially paved the way to the Trump administration.

Because as we remember, I mean, this was used Russian propaganda and Russian media

was basically greatly exaggerated to absolve our own political failures and just deflect

all of our problems to basically point to this arch-nemesis that lives very far away

that very little people even know anything about.

And so, R.T. America, what it was at the beginning, I mean, it's cynically filled avoid, a gaping

void that was left by the corporate media and uplifted anti-war dissidents and things

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