Haven't clicked through on this, so just reacting to the headline.

If there is anyone post-Snowden who needs to be told we are under 24/7 surveillance, they are operating in a cloud of willful ignorance. Are there many people operating in this cloud? Yes. But no matter how many headlines like this one pass them by, they will use their "partisan filter" to call whatever doesn't fit their pre-screened narrative "disinformation" so they can ignore it.

The desire to submit to authority is - independent of and often superior to any other consideration, i.e. freedom, liberty, justice, etc - the dominant force in the personality of an alarming percentage of the members of our species. I believe it to be 80+%, with zero hard evidence for the number, just my instinct of decades watching news stories scroll by and polling based on those stories. There is no socially-acceptable debate for these people regarding whether to submit to authority - that is a given; they are only ever interested in debating to which authority they prefer to submit.