I don’t have the source for what I read right now, but TOR devs are known to work with the government.

bro it was developed by them, for secure communication lmao.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)

The core principle of Tor, onion routing, was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag, to protect American intelligence communications online