If you’re sick and tired of hearing the term “misinformation,” you’re not alone. It’s become one of the most overused phrases in the last couple of years, and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down anytime soon. Because it is extremely versatile in its meaning and sounds both malicious and kind of ambiguous, the Left has found it to be very useful.
As of late, “misinformation” is a nebulous term used by the left to describe something that challenges “the science” on COVID-19. In other words, if someone like Dr. Anthony Fauci says that masks are necessary to halt the spread of COVID-19 and people show how they aren’t, those people are spreading “misinformation.” However, if resident CNN “medical expert” Leana Wen says that the masks we wear are “little more than facial decorations,” this is not “misinformation even though it runs contrary to what Fauci said.
Wen will not be used as an example of a misinformation purveyor. You see, “misinformation” is only something that can be said or done by the right. It doesn’t matter what the leftists claim, misinformation is true.
But the most important part about the “misinformation” that so threatens our society is that it allows an avenue to silence the right. Using the term, the left can proclaim that the misinformation being spread by people is dangerous to society and that allows them to pressure organizations that allow for the spreading of this “misinformation” to crack down on it lets our society suffer great and terrible consequences thanks to their irresponsibility.
Take, for instance, two huge attempts at shutting down the spread of “misinformation” that just came out today. RedState reported the first incident on Thursday. It involved 270 professors and doctors signing a letter addressed to Spotify. This letter chastised Spotify and urged them to censor Joe Rogan’s podcast. The idea was created after Rogan interviewed Dr. Robert Malone who is a vaccinologist and revealed some of the dirty dealings that led to the creation of vaccines, hospitals, politicians, and other governmental officials during the Pandemic Era.
The letter cites unchecked “misinformation” from Rogan’s podcast causing distrust in science, authorities, and vaccine hesitance, and backs it up by linking back to extreme left-leaning sources such as Media Matters and Rolling Stone Magazine.
(READ: Scientists, Doctors Sign Letter To Censor Joe Rogan But Their Language Takes They Away
Another comes from a report from the New York Post, which describes an effort by fact-checking organizations such as Politifact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post, to pressure YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki into cracking down on the “misinformation” that is freely flowing from users on her platform.
“What we do not see is much effort by YouTube to implement policies that address the problem,” the group wrote. “On the contrary, YouTube is allowing its platform to be weaponized by unscrupulous actors to manipulate and exploit others, and to organize and fundraise themselves.”
To no one’s surprise, these groups offer to help YouTube become more factual, saying they’re “ready and able” to assist the video platform.
This is because these organizations are known for being biased and left-leaning. Washington Post “fact-checker” Glenn Kessler, for instance, recently found himself in hot water when he “fact-checked” Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton’s claim that terrorists in jail were receiving stimulus checks. Without any facts on his side, Kessler rushed to proclaim Cotton was lying, only to find out he wasn’t. He had to correct himself but tried to insist that Cotton was still incorrect in some manner, instead of accepting the truth.
Kessler wanted Cotton to be wrong, and so he utilized his position as a “fact-checker” to try to manifest his desires only to have blown up in his face. It was a total abuse of his position and cast doubt on the entire “fact-checking” industry to boot.
Politifact has a reputation for being biased towards the left. It will go to great lengths to create lies when none are available to portray their political opponents incompetent or liars. Recently, Politifact flat out lied about the legality of Kyle Rittenhouse’s carrying of a long-rifle. Politifact’s list of biased sins is long and you can check it out yourself through the link here.
In the end, these “fact-checkers” are just opinion artists selling their bias as truth. This is far from reality. Recently, the fact-checkers Facebook used confessed through legalese that their “fact-checking” is “protected opinion.”
However, their falsehoods don’t matter. It doesn’t matter what their titles are or how open leftist organizations, from Washington D.C. up to Silicon Valley, will be to accept them. If they do, they can use their titles to label anything they don’t like as “misinformation” all day long and have it removed or the person who said it banned.
For now, this is mostly being used as a way to silence dissent or arguments against the left’s COVID-19 narrative, but it’s about more than that.
If they can establish censorship and banning on the basis of “misinformation” as ruled by these leftist fact-checkers when it comes to matters of healthcare, they set a precedence for censorship on any other kind of subject.
Don’t like that schools are showing your child graphic depictions of LGBT intercourse or attempting to convince your child that America is a racist country that needs to be deconstructed from the foundations up? Sounds like you’re willing to spread misinformation that goes against what the experts say is true, so now you’re banned.
Does your data contradict the current climate change narrative? Releasing it defies the narrative established by “climate experts,” and therefore your data must be taken down. Oh, and you’re banned. It doesn’t matter if you’re an expert in the field, either.
The quest to eliminate “misinformation” isn’t that at all. What it is is an excuse to enforce censorship on anything inconvenient to the left’s narrative on any given subject. That word we’re so sick and tired of hearing has a much more malicious agenda behind it than some may understand.
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