This is a remarkably poor article - just a series of laughable complaints. Every tinpot dictator has accused some nefarious power of being behind their opponents. Privacy while a good thing isn't connected to propaganda.

And the complaint about direct communication with journalists being bad is in itself revealing of their own utter abdication - their role should be to investigate and report on the government's statements not to blindly parrot it for money. If they are just being a middleman they aren't doing their job.

And of course, the Guardian would never propagate misinformation. Only a right-wing bigot would think that!