Social media bots now control and censor the media to ensure that everything is going to be proper and nice (except it doesn’t achieve that). The effect, as this publisher notes, is that social media bots are now the most powerful media barons in history.
If only the U.S. had been more like China, we would have ended Covid within two weeks. Oh wait, the U.S. did this too: China suspends social media accounts of Covid policy critics
The media loves the term “bomb cyclone”, a technical term from meteorology that sounds super scary. Most of the public has no idea what it means, and even with the official definition, it still is mostly meaningless to the public. But it sounds scary. And that’s the main point.
If your posts on social media do not agree with the government’s authoritarian views, your social media will be censored. That’s the implication of what we are learning about Twitter’s widespread censorship program run in full cooperation with the U.S. government and other governments.
“60 Minutes” brings back Paul Ehrlich to make more scary fear-based predictions of the future. He’s been wrong about everything for more than 50 years – so why does the media do this nonsense?