Anyone who lived through 2020 noticed that some messages received online treatment that contrasted with other messages. Conservative voices and messages were censored and banned, while progressive voices and messages flowed freely. If a person spoke out against COVID-19 lockdowns, and later vaccines, there was a good chance that a social media platform would remove the post. If someone were to suggest that suspicious activity occurred around the 2020 election, the “misinformation” label might appear.
The primary vehicle for censoring Internet speech is to label disfavored messages as disfavored, incorrect, or incorrect information. While the category of misinformation is ostensibly the most offensive (actual information that government censors believe lacks enough “context”), the other categories can be just as malignant. Disinformation and disinformation require someone to determine what is true and what is not.
As the facts have unfolded, the origin of this phenomenon was something more sinister than company politics or left-leaning tech employees. Our government was involved in the censorship of its own citizens. After Elon Musk's historic takeover of Twitter, he released documents showing conversations between company staff and federal officials that resulted in a coordinated effort to ban, mute or censor accounts from Twitter. There is evidence that other social media and Internet companies had similar coordination with government officials.
