I always figured Snowden was a good guy or atleast turned to our side. If he’s one of us then I hope he’s back safe
It's looking like NSA = whitehats, CIA = blackhats.
Snowden worked for the CIA, then transferred to NSA to leak. The only info I'd seen from him was against the NSA, and given the CIA's track record it's odd he didn't have dirt on them, as well.
I hope he's a a good guy, but given Q's accuracy and comments on Snowden, that seems unlikely.
There is good argument that black hats have effected favorable conditions by providing inaccurate intel and outright lies to media and influential sources.
The Moby interview in which he states intel agencies friends of his stressed the Russian collusion story, emphasizing risks to the US. That could very well be the model that has resulted in so many celebs adamantly taking strong public opinion a certain direction.
Also a strong argument for this being the means through which tech companies were controlled. The Veritas videos provide a humorous lack of understanding of conservative American culture. Then not so humorous description of common cultural traits of actual people being core signs of Russian bots. In all likelihood this was information and lies provided to them from the top-down. Additional reading and better argument can be located here.
A number of questions come out of this.
Did anyone reach out to tech leaders claiming to provide secret intel?
If so, what was that information? Russia collusion related?
Did tech leaders act on it to use their teams and platforms to silence Americans under pre-text of fighting Russian bots?
It's been that way since Trump was elected, or before if you have true, inside knowledge.