The same deep state network funds both the corporate wing of the legacy media and the supposedly independent MAM. The Deep StateThe “deep state” enables “Bill Gates-type people” to meet and discuss their objectives with the bureaucrats and occasionally with the politicians who will implement the deep state’s collective agenda as policy. Fukuyama writes that the deep state has been mischaracterised by US conservatives as a permanent and therefore undemocratic bureaucracy. But by arguing that the deep state is simply “the administrative state,” he embarks on a straw man argument:The United States does not have a “deep state” in the Middle Eastern [Turkish] sense of the term. Notably, Fukuyama is a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a deep state think tank.