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How Trump’s allies are winning the war over disinformation

By Jim Rutenberg & Steven Lee Myers
New York Times·
20 mins to read

Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online.

In the wake of the riot on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, a groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies that had fuelled the assault on the peaceful transfer of power.

Social media companies suspended Donald Trump, then the president, and many of his allies from the platforms they had used to spread misinformation about his defeat and whip up the

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