Many reports and opinions once labelled “misinformation” turned out to be true.
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In recent years, people in government and big media suddenly decided it was their job to stop “misinformation.”
Facebook banned posts that claimed Covid leaked from a lab.
Now experts say the lab leak theory is probably right.
Senator Rand Paul was suspended from YouTube for saying, “masks don’t work very well, particularly the cloth masks.”
What he said is absolutely true.
Twitter prevented the NY Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop from being shared.
The story was accurate.
It’s bad thing when media censors people.
It’s worse when government polices speech.
Twitter’s recently released internal files show government tried to control what you read.