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Speaker 1: Pushkin why.

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Speaker 2: It's been a decade now since members of the Standing

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Speaker 2: Rock Zo tribe launched a historic movement to stop construction

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Speaker 2: of the Dakota Access pipeline. But ten years later, I'm

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Speaker 2: still trying to understand the links the pipeline company went

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Speaker 2: to undermine Standing Rock.

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Speaker 3: I want to create a few fault lines between all

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Speaker 3: the third party activists and the tribes.

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Speaker 2: It helps that I've got access to this giant trove

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Speaker 2: of internal documents. They contained back channel communications between two

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Speaker 2: men hired by the company's private security contractor.

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Speaker 1: I like being able to feed you targets.

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Speaker 3: I just need a little something to work with and

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Speaker 3: we can spend a tapestry.

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Speaker 2: And the more I read them, the more I think

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Speaker 2: that this pipeline battle was as much about whose story

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Speaker 2: would win as it was about any protest on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Not knowing people live here and we had strangers driving around,

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Speaker 1: I'll just sho no.

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Speaker 2: The private security contractors launched a narrative campaign, one that

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Speaker 2: would affirm local people's worst fears about the demonstrators.

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Speaker 3: We are doing heavy targeting in the North Dakota area,

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Speaker 3: mostly to focus on increasing the fracturing and creating doubt.

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Speaker 2: And provoke them to action of their own.

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Speaker 1: It's infuriating. Honestly, that's not who I am. To be

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Speaker 1: persuaded into doing something that's out of character.

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Speaker 2: Was not pleasant. There was no way all those bad

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Speaker 2: feelings were going to fade away just because the pipeline

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Speaker 2: got built. I'm Eline Brown. Welcome to The Propagandist, a

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Speaker 2: drilled mini series telling the inside story of a corporation's

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Speaker 2: narrative war against an environmental movement.

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Speaker 4: Disgusting ego terraces. It's what I call all that. I say,

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Speaker 4: everybody should be on your riptop and be protected and

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Speaker 4: take him out.

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Speaker 1: H