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For weeks, Meta restricted the distribution journalist Gil Duran’s coverage of Elon Musk’s government takeover, preventing users from accessing and distributing an article published to his website and newsletter titled Memo: Capture of U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Neoreactionaries, by marking the article as spam.

The article details how a memo produced by a group of anonymous researchers does a good job of explaining Elon Musk’s “stunning takeover of the U.S. government” and how such a takeover is in line with Silicon Valley’s broader goals of establishing a “Network State.”

The Network State movement is a well-funded effort by Silicon Valley billionaires, including Marc Andreessen and Sam Altman, that seeks to create tech-controlled governments around the world. It’s a new, corporation-driven model of government,