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And now they’re coming for the podcasts. Two weeks ago, AFP ran this alarming headline:
Oh no! Not PODCAST misinformation! Misinformation like, claiming the shots don’t stop transmission, or that the covid virus leaked from the Wuhan lab. The article identified misinformation super-spreading podcasts like Joe Rogan, Charlie Kirk, and Steve Bannon which, according to the article, often include things that completely-reliable and presumptively un-biased “fact checkers” have deemed to be false.
The fretful fact-checkers worry, because the “conversational tone” of podcasts make them seem more believable, or something. So people might accidentally believe something that’s not officially approved by the government, which could damage the Nation’s cognitive infrastructure. It’s like a highway bridge that starts cracking after a conversational tractor-trailer filled with moonpies of misinformation collides with the cognitive overpass.
It’s JUST like that.
Presumably, the censors are just now getting around to the podcasts because lazy SBU and FBI agents prefer keyword searching over actually reading or listening to content for themselves. Anyway, don’t worry, the have people on the job now, and soon will be “fact checking” podcasts and rating them as unreliable:
NewsGuard, a firm that rates the credibility of websites, announced in May it would begin evaluating the trustworthiness of popular podcasts. NewsGuard said it will release the ratings for some 200 podcasts in 2024, giving more transparency to listeners and enabling advertisers to avoid podcasts featuring misinformation or content at odds with their brand.
I’m sure they will be super-duper careful never to flag people’s OPINIONS or issues that could be argued either way as disinformation, because that would be crazy unconstitutional, right? You believe that, don’t you?
It’s surprising how much of the public buys into the fact that the government (or companies operating under their direction) get to decide for us what “misinformation” is. When was it that we lost the ability to decide what that is for ourselves? When did we decide to let them tell us what it is? Freedom just keeps slipping away a bit at a time and no one seems to notice…
We didn’t let them decide anything for us…they just assumed it was their right to control the TRUTH
They are finding out that now that this has come to light ..thanks to the free desimination of information at places like here at the tent and Thousands of other easily accessed places …thier dream of controlling the TRUTH has Blown UP…
They are in Denial of course and won’t stop trying but they are trying to heard the cats they let out of the BAG