Those groups were then tagging. They were literally tagging and labeling voices in American politics. Ben Shapiro, the Federalist, others tagging them as foreign agents. So you look at it and say American taxpayers through the State Department were paying groups to attack Americans and to try to silence the voice of Americans. And they were consequent. These weren't just a label they put on people. Some of these people got deplatformed, they got taken down. They couldn't communicate. So it was outrageous. (17:13–17:21)
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