Commentary: Incoming Trump Regulators Want Journalists to Cave, Starting With Me
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Incoming Trump Regulators Want Journalists to Cave, Starting With Me
Over the weekend, NewsGuard co-CEO Steven Brill described to POLITICO readers how incoming Trump Administration regulators have been threatening NewsGuard — and why his efforts to convince them not to have made him want to take a shower. Read his POLITICO account here.
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