The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.

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[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

wasn't taibbi's investigation about hunter biden dick pics and not like. mass consensus manufacturing of the state dept line through botting

[–] davel@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

That is what the Dem-aligned corporate media wanted Democrats to believe, and they seem have been very successful at it.

Jacobin, Dec. 2022: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal

Taibbi and others have discovered & revealed much more about the corporate social media propaganda system in the year since then, but Democrats have been trained to ignore all of it.

[–] jonne 26 points 2 years ago

Yeah, he basically ignored how voices on the left are way more likely to get banned for bullshit reasons, presumably because Musk didn't provide him with those files. He let himself and his reputation be used, despite knowing better.