Samantha Power's husband, Cass Sunstein, has argued for the government to conduct "cognitive infiltration" operations against the anti-establishment opinions he broadly defined as "conspiracy theories." https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1319986627192684549

Cass Sunstein has called for US govt to groom seemingly independent agents to conduct "cognitive infiltration" against vaguely defined "conspiracy" networks:

"govt can supply these independent experts with information and perhaps prod them into action from behind the scenes..."

Sunstein: "Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action."

Sunstein: "Once corrective info is introduced, large numbers of people can be shifted to different views. If govt is able to have credibility, or to act through credible agents, it might well be successful in dislodging beliefs that are held only because no one contradicts them."

Source: "Conspiracy Theories," by Cass Sunstein & Adrian Vermeule, 2010.

It seems obvious the US government is implementing many of Sunstein's creepiest recommendations & applying them with a broad brush to media that threatens its critical imperatives.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585.