I think that if Orwell were alive today he would marvel at the genius of the newspeak bureaucrats having their work done by what is meant to appear as objective private sector journalists. It’s sorta like a newspeak information and censorship laundering front.
Often the problem with drastic socialism has been the increasing need for oppressive totalitarian control to maintain it, which further breeds resentment and the eventual outcome of collapse or revolution. But if your propaganda doesn’t come from state run print or TV, then you can buffer to focus of the resentment.
So many of the books of yesteryear are becoming the reality of today. In 100 years I am sure that Orwell will not be viewed as a fiction writer, but more as a prophet. When we look at what is happening to free speech, how long until Farenheit 451 becomes reality.