One censorship technique modern regimes have used is to flood the public discourse with so many variants of the truth and lies and everything in between that it becomes near impossible to fact check everything [1]. It makes the average person give up and defer to their favorite pundits.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood (this page discusses Russian use, but honestly it’s done by all of the usual suspects)
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