Mike Benz shares the biggest takeaways from journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger’s reporting and testimony to Congress about the “Pentagon-driven, domestic censorship coordination effort” that began years before COVID. “This didn’t just come out of nowhere. It’s not like the Pentagon just suddenly had an epiphany in 2018 and started setting down censorship cells,” Benz says. “This came out of a military perception that civilian-run media would lead to the overturning of the rules-based international order, and the EU...and NATO would come apart if the military did not move into the media.