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On the recordNovember 2, 2015
But, listen, it is--nowadays--today's dictators, they do not really work through censorship, they work through putting so much disinformation out there, people cannot tell, you know, the good from the bad, disinformation from real information.
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire

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Shaheen discusses how modern dictators use disinformation instead of censorship.

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