Biden Admin Admits To Helping Control What You re Allowed To Know
What could have potentially been defended as a well-meaning effort to work with major speech outlets to combat certain inaccuracies about the efficacy of vaccines, however, quickly progressed beyond that. By Friday, the White House was pressuring companies to work together to ban users across multiple platforms. Efforts to ban misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine, meanwhile, had evolved into banning the latest narratives dangerous to public health.
The problem with all of this, of course, is that the definition of misinformation is constantly changing to meet the needs of the powerful whether that is the political needs of the party in charge, or the political or financial self-interest of the platforms.
It’s all about narrative control.