How wrong of me to think that high-profile politicians and wall to wall cable news coverage are anything other than little-noticed voices bleeding through the a

How wrong of me to think that high-profile politicians and wall to wall cable news coverage are anything other than little-noticed voices bleeding through the all-pervading censorship of... two internet companies deleting a handful of accounts after people had pointed out how many million likes their dangerous medical advice was getting and some algorithmic "are you sure you want to link to this hoax?" interstitials. Really, the argument that Meta's moderation was futile and inept (even more so than its policing of scam ads and spambots) has far more credibility than attempts to portray it as some evil internet police forcing people to hide out on tiny islands of antivax. It seems a little unlikely that people who decided to delete their Facebook account and seek out an echo chamber because they didn't like seeing FactCheck.org links slapped on vaccine function would have nevertheless listened very carefully to FactCheck.org or the public health officials their favourite politicos were slagging off if only they were able to d̶e̶b̶a̶t̶e̶ post misleading memes about public health on Facebook first. I mean, the anger at third party fact checkers is explicit rejection of the idea there's anything to debate. Anyway, regardless of whether self-proclaimed fact checkers actually live up to their label, it's difficult to describe a corporation bending the knee to an incoming administration that's determined that corporations shouldn't link to them as a victory for free speech or enabling controversial viewpoints to be debated as opposed to merely promoted on internet platforms. Must be wonderful for Zuckerberg to be able to express himself freely without any threat of censure whatsoever on the day he announces that he'll be firing his his moderation team so he can relocate it to a state the incoming administration considers less susceptible to wrongthink