[waffle_ss]

> And in the United States, we don't

We don't? Didn't Zuckerberg just admit on Joe Rogan that during the last election all the major media companies were briefed by feds that were was a big "misinformation" news piece incoming, so that when the Hunter Biden laptop story finally dropped, they all censored it, sight unseen? Therefore it seems all the big social media tech companies have no problem with rubberstamping gov't requests for censorship.

They almost made it glaringly obvious when they tried to roll out their Disinformation Governance Board, which fell flat.

[KerrAvon]

And, as it turned out, the Hunter Biden laptop story was 100% right wing bullshit, so it was the right thing to do. Fancy that!

[waffle_ss]

It's far more real than the so-called "Steele dossier" that the media made hay with for years, unsuppressed by the professional-managerial class.

If you're in favor of suppressing your political opponents' speech rights that's fine I guess, just don't lecture me about "our democracy."

[richbell]

The content was 100% real, though the "I found this laptop and it happened to belong to Hunter Biden" story was obviously a pretense to release content that had been obtained illegaly — likely from a hostile foreign state.

I guess it wouldn't have looked good if Rudy Guliani came out and said "the Kremelin gave me compromising videos of Joe Biden's son".

[deanCommie]

Which is what makes it a "misinformation" campaign.

Folks on this site have a childishly simple view on information and propaganda. I've heard many people say if it's true it can't have an agenda. But what you say is just as important as what you DON'T say.

When the Russians hacked both the DNC and the RNC and leaked only the DNC emails to WikiLeaks who gladly posted them (because to be fair Clinton and Obama wanted Assange's head), and used the RNC info to blackmail Republicans, that's a misinformation campaign.

Doesn't matter if all the emails were true.

[mise_en_place]

What it boils down to is that the US intelligence agencies are determining the outcome of our elections. Doesn’t that seem eerily similar to when the Praetorian Guard was determining who would rule Rome? I think we can all see where it leads to.