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Right, so there’s no ministry of truth but choices of some media companies to promote government recommendations that turned out to be best to their knowledge and not absolute truth?


No government officials promoted certain narratives which have been proven false and they walk things back and the news doesn’t push back on that.

Moreover the government had embeds and was in communication with social media and traditional coordinating what to disseminate and what to suppress.

The. You have more dignitaries at the WEF and UN COP saying how wonderful it was that Covid prepared people and provided for better government control…


So there's no ministry of truth and the US Govt was wrong on some aspects and some of the news organisations didn't pushed back?


Oh ok. Obviously Russia and China are not fascist because they have never said they are fascist. Got it; thanks!


I just don't see how a government body responsible for the public health having an advice for health which is pushed by some of the media counts as ministry of truth.


It's already been pointed out to you that when people say "Ministry of Truth", they're referring to the defunct "Disinformation Governance Board" created within the DHS. You chose to ignore that.


Obviously that's not what mc32 had in his mind


Interesting you didn't engage with those other replies then. Why is that?


When I don't have anything to add, ask or object, I don't engage.


> Right, so there’s no ministry of truth but choices of some media companies to promote government recommendations

If you think the government phone-calling people at social media companies flagging specific instances and people for "misinformation" is not a form of intimidation, then you need to familiarize yourself with the legal precedent here.




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