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Regime Change Through Social Media
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
27 May 2019
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The CIA’s Digital Innovations Division is now as strategic a tool of regime change as the old cloak and dagger methods of subversion, according to Doug Valentine, author of The Phoenix Programand The CIA As Organized Crime. “If you can actually influence how people think, through social media, then you can have a lot more control” of their political behavior, said Valentine.

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