“‘Disinformation’ Bogie: Why US wants ‘Regime Degradation’, not change, in India”, Swarajyamag, May 30, 2023:

“A little before the 2019 election, as the Trump administration was starting to disintegrate, parts of the US government and associated non-government entities, stepped up their interference in the Bharatiya democratic process.

Although this was fairly obvious to close observers of the relationship, the actual mechanics of it was first disclosed in an interview given to The Sunday Guardian by Mike Benz, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Technology at the US State Department for a very short period from autumn 2020 through January 2021.

Benz, now the Executive Director of the non-profit Foundation for Freedom Online, said in the interview earlier this year: “When I was at the State Department, I saw all these same think tanks like the ‘Atlantic Council’ were inundating me and my policy peers with recommendations to promote censoring ‘misinformation’ abroad in so-called ‘nationalist’ or ‘authoritarian’ governments…..”

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