“For a good moderate citizen who just wants to “listen to the experts,” life is more bewildering by the day. The experts and “authoritative sources” keep changing their minds on things. “Misinformation” long ago stopped being false information, or even heretical information that defied official narratives. Now, “misinformation” is simply anything that contradicts the specific emphasis from official sources at this very moment*.* One can spread “misinformation” by believing the official narrative just a couple weeks too long, or a couple weeks too early*.* Practically any statement from public health officials in the first three months of 2020 would be misinformation if repeated today.”
“In big picture terms, then, that means the crusade against misinformation is not a tool designed to enforce belief in any particular piece of information, or “the truth” write large. Instead, it is designed to enforce loyalty to certain sources of information. The only way to be entirely safe from the misinformation label is to mindlessly reaffirm the latest declarations from a handful of official and quasi-official outlets. The push to demonize misinformation is therefore a push to consolidate all narrative control in the hands of a few regime-approved (and regime-compliant) institutions.”
“Fascinatingly, though, this effort might be failing, simply because progressives stoked the furnace of Covid hysteria too much, and now the panic has spread out of their control. Because, try as it might to change narratives, the Biden Administration can’t get progressives to play along.”
Read them if you haven’t, they’re worth your time…