On Friday's broadcast of Newsmax TV's "The Record," journalist Matt Taibbi stated that the lack of mainstream media coverage of the "massive story of national consequence" of former acting CIA Director Michael Morell's role in the letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian misinformation is an example of how "we're starting to come to" the "same situation" as in the Soviet Union where "nobody read the newspapers because it was all lies and there was no real news in [them]."