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So today we have a pretty special episode, an interview with Mint Press News writer, an investigative journalist, Whitney Webb.

Whitney is currently one of my favorite investigative reporters writing on the internet right now.

Her work is primarily at Mint Press News, but I highly recommend

everybody check it out. She's been writing extensively about the neocons and foreign policy agendas

that they have and this whole fake news, soft censorship internet purge as well.

And what we're going to talk about today is the newest iteration

in sort of the neocon neoliberal blob agenda to soft censor the internet

through a corporation called NewsGuard.

So without further ado, here's our interview.

You just wrote this incredible expose on this company, and I guess you could describe them as a corporation. I mean, I don't

know if they're incorporated, but they have a CEO. Yeah, they have two CEOs. Two CEOs. And it's

called NewsGuard. The name, sort of obvious what they kind of do, maybe not obvious to everyone

listening to this, but obvious to

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