When the censors keep getting it wrong

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When Big Tech and the government combine 

The war on ‘misinformation’ is shrinking the public square.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s email exchanges about Covid with Anthony Fauci last year, in which he offered Fauci a platform to ‘get authoritative information out’ about the pandemic, suggest there may have been collusion between the US state and Facebook. It’s difficult to tell, because some of the email content has been redacted. But the redactions themselves should make us suspicious.

What we do know is that ‘misinformation’ has been a moving target throughout the pandemic. Early on, social-media users were warned against contravening official World Health Organisation advice – advice that has frequently and dramatically changed since. For example, masks were judged unnecessary in the spring of 2020, but very necessary later that year. For a long time, sharing the lab-leak theory about the origins of Covid could get you deplatformed. Now that President Biden has given credence to the theory, social-media firms have changed their policy to allow it.

If enough people back Trump’s legal case, coming forward with their own stories of how they were charged with spreading ‘misinformation’ and silenced, it will become clear to all that we are dealing not with ‘misinformation’, but with ‘missing information’. The public square is being diminished by a lack of questioning, curiosity and controversy, and we are being denied access to important facts and ideas. It seems that on social media today only one opinion is permitted on the issues that matter.

Will we one day discover that lockdowns actually had far more detrimental effects on health than the virus itself? We will never know if we are not even allowed to ask the question, and if the relevant information never makes its way on to the tech platforms. The suppression of information is the real problem here – not false information flying around.
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Misinformation is clearly a moving target and Big Tech's attempts to contain it have led them to publish misinformation about the alleged misinformation.  It is why we need open forums to debate the issue and not try to cancel those with whom we may disagree.  We need to free the marketplace of ideas.  There was a time when the theory that the earth rotated around the sun was censored.  That was a setback to science and we are seeing similar mistakes as Big Tech and its Democrat allies try to control the debate.