White House to enlist ‘”an army” of social media “influencers”‘
Politics is all about propaganda. No surprise then, the White House will set up “an army” of social media influencers to persuade others to adopt the White House agenda.
The party of censorship?
Congress held hearings on the findings of the “Twitter files”, which showed that government agencies worked with Twitter (and other social media companies) to intentionally suppress speech in the United States, and to control access to information. Eventually we would learn that Stanford University ran a program, in conjunction with the social media companies, to intentionally suppress “factually true” statements if they did not support the regime’s desires.
In the Congressional hearing, the Democrat representatives engaged in bizarre questioning, fully supporting government censorship of public discourse, via proxy. In so doing, they labeled their party as the party of censorship – what were they thinking?
Rule by technocratic experts
The inventors of “public relations” (the name given to the field after “propaganda” grew out of favor) argued for rule by technocratic elite, thinking that important decisions should be left to “experts” and not democracies.
Censorship: US Senators favor censoring the Internet
U.S. Senators favor censorship of online platforms, especially if they are not based in the U.S. and outside the control of U.S. government censors.
Rep.-elect George Santos: How to be an idiot
Rep. Elect George Santos (R, NY) has admitted to have lied about almost all of his background including college history (he didn’t go to college), work history, charity, and family history. He defends this by arguing he did not commit any crimes…. he is an outright liar and now he will soon be a Congressional Representative. Obviously, well qualified for the job!