Posted on 02/11/2022 11:32:50 AM PST by Enlightened1
Establishment media was wrong about Iraq.
Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart has expressed his concern about ‘fact checkers’ and the legacy media being given the power to label certain narratives “misinformation,” asking the question, “who gets to decide?”
“These are shifting sands,” Stewart explained during a podcast hosted by Apple TV+.
“I think I get concerned with, well who gets to decide what that (is),” he added.
“In the Iraq war, I was on the side of what you would think, on the mainstream is misinformation, I was promoting what they would call misinformation, but it turned out to be right years later and the establishment media was wrong,” Stewart asserted.
https://twitter.com/ZacBissonnette/status/1491982072541597719
Stewart, who previously suggested that the COVID-19 virus had leaked from the Wuhan lab, should be applauded for being one of the few liberals who hasn’t completely abandoned his principles to simp for Big Tech censorship like virtually all the others.
“Every few years, there’s a new excuse created to justify censorship,” commented Glenn Greenwald. “The latest is “disinformation” and — as Jon Stewart adeptly explains here — it’s the subjective and elastic nature of this term that makes it both so powerful and subject to abuse.”
“I will likely never tire of pointing out the fact that the worst and most destructive “disinformation” comes – by far – not from FB or QAnon but from the largest corporate media outlets and their CIA/FBI sources which claim to be battling disinformation,” he added.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1492120301840351232
Indeed, as we point out in the video below, so-called ‘fact checks’ of ‘disinformation’ sometimes acknowledge that the information is actually true, but still label it “mostly false” anyway because it counters the regime narrative.
For over a year, it was considered “disinformation” or “misinformation” to even entertain the lab leak theory.
Some of those tasked with burying such information on behalf of social media networks, like Dr. Peter Daszak, were intimately involved with the lab itself and complicit in covering up the truth.
Daszak was tasked by Facebook with ‘fact-checking’ (censoring) information related to the hypothesis, while Google, which via YouTube also censored information about the theory, also funded Daszak’s virus research.
It is increasingly becoming clear that ‘fact checkers’ – entities that have been handed the power to ring fence information and silence dissent – aren’t ‘neutral and impartial’ at all, but are merely gatekeepers for the establishment political class.
Democrats and big tech of course.
The sheeple are good with this.
Good one
Those who hold power decide what is “truth” and what is “misinformation”.
That is how you know who holds actual power.
That's Easy,
I Do.
The “Ministry of Truth”....of course!
Add Stewart to the “Lefty who’s beginning to see the light” list which includes Bill Maher.
In a free society, the individual gets to decide what is true and free speech is not censored or suppressed.
A person who is not sure if free speech is allowed only needs to observe one simple act: is distasteful, unpopular, inaccurate or incorrect, even offensive speech allowed or is such speech censored, banned, canceled, or suppressed. If one is not allowed to say such things, then you have no free speech.
*** Those who hold power decide what is “truth” and what is “misinformation”. ***
That’s why I said “Democrats”. I use that in the broadest sense. It doesn’t matter who you see elected, or who you think is in charge, as when the GOP controls Congress, Democrats run things. The deep state is firmly entrenched. Half of the Republican party, (or more), are Democrats, (Romney, Cheny, Kinzinger, Collins, etc.)
There have been only 2 people to upset that balance in my lifetime, Reagan and Trump. Reagan was too smooth for the deep state to eliminate. One could argue they did try to assassinate him. Trump, they managed to cheat him out of office, and they are so concerned they are STILL trying to bar him from trying again.
Jon Stewart is one of the useful idiots who helped usher in the chaos we are experiencing.
Mmmm. Don’t know.
Or hoping the crocodile “eats them last”.
I thought Mr. Stewart was the keeper of truth and debunker of misinformation.
He asks “who decides?” He decides!
Racist!
Amazing. Stewart has been a far-left cheerleader for a very long time.
Curious language from someone who has dedicated most of his adult life to spreading progressivist disinformation.
Der Fuhrer decides. We’ve been here before.
I hear it alot ...... the label Misinformation given in response to a video etc. The video could be hours long, and it is labeled that way.... a one word summary. What gets me is few will challenge the label and ask for details. They let them get away with it.
That’s what it boils down to...
WHY CANT WE THINK FOR OURSELVES WHAT WE BELIEVE.
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Maybe, and maybe Russell Brand, too. We'll see.
CNN decides what is true and what’s not.
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