The algorithms used by social media are notoriously incapable of distinguishing commentary from historical analysis or political advocacy. Case in point: Matt Taibbi in Substack tells of how Instagram, citing “community standards,” has removed postings that show Hitler’s rise to power as his contemporaries would have experienced it.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


