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

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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. 



For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had been cutting a wide swath through federal agencies, gutting teams that worked on everything from scientific research to Social Security to international aid. So when the employees of t

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