raises the larger question, which is, how do you write a history of disinformation? How do you go about researching a book like this and feeling confident that you're not actually contributing to advancing a body of misinformation or to perpetuating an active measure? Yeah, that's a super tough question. And of course, also a fascinating one for an author. How do you write a book about disinformation without disinformation in it? And what I did is two things that I just would point out. One is, I'm showing my work. You just quoted from this interview that you heard with Bitman, which you can find in my end notes. You can literally pull down the entire interview and listen to it. You can find many primary source documents that I work with from various intelligence archives in the end notes, the full document there as well. So everybody can check the source documents. So I had to work with the best source documents available and also be very open about the limitations of some of the (17/43)
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