The true, bloody, and brutal story of Antifa, Abolish the Police, and Black Lives Matter is following exactly the same trajectory as the Wuhan lab leak story. The truth was dismissed as a conspiracy theory and ruthlessly suppressed until it could no longer be ignored.
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And that wholly false narrative was then weaponized by lefty Big Tech into a censorship doctrine that silenced people who strayed from the packaged narrative. You got banned or flagged in 2020 for discussing what the media suddenly decided was acceptable in 2021.
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This keeps HAPPENING. It happened again with urban violence from Antifa/Abolish the Police/Black Lives Matter. The same factors were in play: influential sources with a narrative to peddle, political biased reporters, the people telling the truth were icky.
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It's been happening for a long time. Past decades are filled with left-wing sources easily manipulating biased reporters, media flocking like geese to follow each other's junk reporting, storytelling and "narratives" favored over the truth, partisan interests controlling press.
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Students of media bias have troves of favorite stories about media firestorms sparked by dubious sources who weren't questioned because their stories fit the media's biases. Tiny groups could shoot off a couple of faxes and trigger comical avalanches of headline news.
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But now we have censorship loops that run from corrupt sources >> Big Media >> Big Tech. Some of those loops begin with tweets and Facebook posts, bringing it full circle: Online chatter laundered through Big Media and hammered into censorship directives by online platforms.
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Among many reasons to be deeply worried about this censorship loop: the Chinese Communist Party EXCELS at presenting packaged news stories to foreign media outlets. They spent huge amounts of money and thousands of man-hours perfecting such operations.https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/05/13/study-chinese-influence-worldwide-media-surged-during-pandemic/ …
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If our media remains as lazy, blinkered, biased, prejudiced, and gullible as what we've seen during the lab leak and urban violence debacles, it will be child's play for China and other hostile powers to use American media to further their malevolent political strategies.
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The lab leak story was arguably China's first great success at doing so. The course of American politics was indisputably changed to Beijing's benefit by how the coronavirus was covered. Apologies and backpedaling from media today are WORSE than useless to the American people.
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China got what it wanted from U.S. media's coverage of the coronavirus, and media is admitting the truth in a grudging and dishonest manner intended to deflect the serious criticism that could improve it. The systemic flaws remain - and our enemies know how to exploit them. /end
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Nonsense. It was always openly recognized as a possibility, but one that was unlikely given the evidence at the time and still lacks evidence
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