People keep repeating this trope, and it seems to never be true. They claim there’s a deep state operation on the basement of a pizza shop as “what they don’t want you to know” (no such thing exists), while at the same time we have literally unfiltered access to everything happening on the ground in ukraine and gaza. Citizens are more informed than ever, and other than maybe a couple of governments (israel, russia, iran), there’s really no clear “tighter leash” being put across the board…?