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The People Trying To Censor Us Are Government Spies

Feb 01, 202448 sec
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Have you ever heard of the “Five Eyes” nations? I confess that I hadn’t until I started covering censorship and other governmental abuses of power last year.

But it turns out to be something really important. The Five Eyes refers to intelligence agencies in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, which have collaborated on spying and intelligence sharing since World War II.

Now it appears Canada spread disinformation to other Five Eyes nations after Canada’s Justin Trudeau government used the same faked intelligence to illegally frame protesters as violent extremists.

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