If Democrats were EVER held to the same standard they demand of the rest of us they would be in jail by now!
Dems are real big on banning misinformation. You hear it all the time coming from the White House. Basically everything critical of Biden must be a lie and therefore those who spread these lies must be censored and punished. Big Tech and the media do their part. Remember how Big Tech censored any mention of Hunter's laptop? Turned out to be true. Hunter did discuss in emails how he was rounding up big bucks to sell influence. But you were not allowed to hear about that before the election. Of course that same standard never applied to Trump. Dems could repeat every lie over and over and Big Tech and the media would help them do it.
Kylie Zempel at the Federalist has a few reminders:
But do factions of conservatives really embrace “misinformation” because they’re all off their rockers? Or is it because would-be trustworthy sources of information have repeatedly failed them, lied to them, gaslit and slandered them?
For instance, do conservatives largely reject media-endorsed critical race theory in their kids’ classrooms because they’re white nationalists? Or is it because the media constantly race-bait them with false narratives? Ma’Khia Bryant? “Hands up, don’t shoot”? Charlottesville? Adam Toledo?
If you’re going to smear people who fall prey to so-called disinformation, you must ask what the alternative is — and whether that alternative might contribute to the rise of fringe explanations. In this case, the alternative is the same media that smeared Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist. It’s the media that fell for the Jussie Smollett hoax and the Russia hoax, and that cut video footage to paint a Catholic teenager as a smug racist. It’s the media that saw the Hunter Biden laptop story and said “nothing to see here,” that stood in front of burning buildings and called it “peaceful protests,” that wrongly claimed Trump tear-gassed “peaceful protesters” in Lafayette Park for a photo op.
Corrupt corporate media gaslit conservatives with critical race theory and wrongly insisted MAGA insurrectionists bludgeoned a Capitol Police officer to death with a fire extinguisher. Shoddy news outlets teamed up with Facebook to issue false “independent fact-checks” that nuked the opinions of their opponents. The media machine ran damage control for Fauci while he flip-flopped and passed the buck.
They told us that the 2020 election, rife with last-minute rule-changes and vote-by-mail and Big Tech censorship, was the safest and most secure election of all time. They opted for comedy hour with Gov. Andrew Cuomo instead of asking him and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer real questions about their lethal nursing home policies. They concocted a false narrative out of thin air about Gov. Ron DeSantis and Publix pharmacies when they needed to make a successful Republican leader look bad.
They’ve downplayed the border crisis, framed as an “accident” the story of car-jacking teenagers who murdered a Pakistani immigrant in broad daylight, said Antifa doesn’t exist, and lied about conflict in the Middle East, with the New York Times even ginning up fake maps of Palestine. They called Republicans who voted for Trump a “credulous boomer rube demo” and said the GOP needs to be de-programmed.
They giddily ushered in a sham impeachment — and then a second sham impeachment. They claimed there was no way the National Security Agency was spying on Tucker Carlson. They lied about Russian bounties and downplayed Fauci’s emails.
“All of this goes back to 2016,” conservative TV host Saagar Enjeti rightly wrote on Twitter. “These people believe in their bones that Trump was only elected because of ‘misinformation.’ Their solution is to rig the platforms instead of ask why so many millions lost trust in all our institutions in the first place.”
Apparently, Democrat misinformation is "fair" because Trump and his supporters deserve it. But consider what would happen if Trump said this:
Who would trust this clown https://t.co/ThT83kW61E
— mikesamerica (@mikesamerica) July 22, 2021
And it's not just Democrat politics where misinformation is a tool to deceive. Climate Change (OK, that subject is ENTIRELY about Democrat politics) is another area where misinformation runs rampant. For the last thirty years we've been told that the earth is doomed unless we act NOW. Every prediction of doom and gloom has come and gone without any serious consequence. Yet even though this BIG LIE has been exposed over and over every time there is some severe weather the same people leap up to spread more disinformation. Had they been accurate in the past we'd all be dead by now. They keep at it because fear works if you have Big Tech and the media to help spread the BIG LIE!
Want to stop disinformation? Ban Democrats and their tech and media allies.
Another example: MSNBC should be banned for spreading disinformation!
Questioning the legitimacy of a presidential election? OH HORROR! But the Big Lie is just fine if you are attacking Trump!
Defund the Police? More Dem Disinformation
Dems are now pretending it's the Republicans who want to defund the police. That's a lie of course and if misinformation was banned they would be called out on it. But like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, Dems are free to spread misinformation until the cows come home. Here'a a reminder of how often they said "defund the police."
The "BIG LIE" alive and well as long as you are a Democrat!
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