If anyone ever has doubts that the governments, science institutions or news media should NEVER EVER NEVER EVER EVER NEVER be trusted at face value and confirmed 100 times before believing and then still having very very very healthy skepticism, just watch this reminder from Edward Snowden from 1983:
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(Source Twitter: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1589606899569377282)
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