Why Is Everything the Left Doesn’t Like ‘Misinformation’?
Douglas Blair / March 07, 2022
The government’s Big Brother-style crusade to control what gets
posted online continues apace.
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on March 3 demanded that
Big Tech companies provide the government with data surrounding
COVID-19 “misinformation” on their platforms.
The New York Times reported that Murthy asked the companies to
reveal “exactly how many users saw or may have been exposed to in-
stances of COVID-19 misinformation,” on top of providing the demo-
graphic data of those users.
The request follows on the heels of an advisory released last
July, in which Murthy said misinformation “can cause confusion, sow
distrust, and undermine public health efforts, including our ongoing
work to end the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The term “misinformation” has become a bit of a catch-all in the
COVID-19 era. It certainly can apply to actual untruths, such as that
the COVID-19 vaccine contains microchips. But far more frequently,
the term is weaponized against ideas the powers-that-be don’t like.
Take, for example, the ever-evolving tale of the Chinese lab-leak
hypothesis regarding COVID-19.
Ground zero for the initial outbreak of COVID-19 was quickly de-
termined to be Wuhan, China. The city is home to the Wuhan Institute
of Virology, a lab known for conducting gain-of-function research
into coronaviruses. When people started suggesting the two were
linked, the response from health authorities and corporate media was
instantaneous.
The hypothesis was lambasted as a racist conspiracy theory, and
anyone who tried to disseminate it was quickly labeled a fringe kook
or censored entirely on social media. Back in February 2020, Facebook
banned an article from the New York Post claiming COVID-19 could have
leaked from a lab.
Fast-forward a year to 2021 and suddenly the lab leak was no
longer misinformation worthy of exile from the internet. The same
outlets and experts who had gone to great lengths to smear anyone who
dared go against their medical decrees were suddenly singing a very
different tune.
Facebook itself was forced to recant, and announced it would stop
removing posts that asserted COVID-19 leaked from a lab.
That brings us back to the issue of Murthy demanding data on
“misinformation” from these Big Tech platforms. As the lab-leak saga
demonstrated, the definition of what qualifies as misinformation is
incredibly nebulous and can change with the political winds.
Murthy’s fishing expedition to find “misinformation” is for one
purpose only; namely, control of our lives and of what we think.
As the pandemic dragged on, the government and Big Tech used the
label of “misinformation” to ban ideas and outlets they dislike. They
found that strategy to be incredibly effective and want to continue
using it into the future.
The strategy is no longer limited to COVID-19, either. The pop-
ular streaming site Twitch announced March 3 that it plans to ban
users who spread “misinformation” on other topics, including elec-
tion fraud, and chillingly undefined “misinformation that may impact
public safety.”
Once censorship becomes a common strategy against perceived “mis-
information,” free speech is effectively dead. Don’t like what your
political opposition is saying? Label it “misinformation,” ban it,
and call it a day.
Many censorious tyrants have cloaked their actions in the name
of “public safety” as Murthy has. And as those definitions of “public
safety” rest on foundations as solid as shifting sands, it’s inevit-
able that the term “misinformation” will be abused further in the
future.
For the sake of free speech, it’s essential that Murthy and the
“misinformation” mob be countered at every turn. Americans should be
empowered to discover the truth on their own, and not have their
experiences curated by a biased bureaucracy or unelected tech czars.
The truth is out there. We don’t need Murthy to tell us what it
is.
Douglas Blair
Misinformation seems to be a catch-all used to attack those that
disagree with the liberal left.
Virtually every story about the ANTIFA and BLM's attempt to de-
stroy America for over a year.
The lame excuses for fencing off the "People's House" is yet
to be told.
The truth about the Covid-19 pandemic and all things pertaining
like masking, social distancing, vaccine proof, death count, actual
number of Covid cases, etc.
The true events of Jan. 6, 2021 are still being hidden along with
14,000 different videos of the truth.
We are still waiting for the truth about the disaster called the
abandonment of our people in Afghanistan.
One can call out everything that comes out of the White House but
in truth, they are just the typical lies that Americans are being fed
by the corrupt media and the accomplished liars that walk the halls
of Congress.
Don't we deserve better? We endured 8 years of Obama and after a
prosperous 4 years we have been forced back into the swamp.
It is time to call the liars what they are.
They are like the little boy who cried wolf until no one believed
him anymore.
Let's stand up and take back our country.
Pray for God's mercy and His grace.
Conservatively,
John
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