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Derailing the defund: How SPD manipulated the media narrative around the 2020 protests

HardPressed

23 Jul 2023

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https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2023/07/19/derailing-defund-how-spd-manipulated-media-narrative-around-2020-protests

Additional reporting done by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue.

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