Spike: The Twitter Files reveal an elite at war with the truth

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The Twitter Files reveal an elite at war with the truth

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/23/the-twitter-files-reveal-an-elite-at-war-with-the-truth/

There are two extremely important lessons we must learn from the latest Twitter Files revelations. Firstly, the word ‘misinformation’ does not mean anything other than ‘information the elites don’t like’. The word’s only function is to smear. Michael Shellenberger, another journalist who has been instrumental in bringing the Twitter Files to light, made this fundamental point in his testimony before congress earlier this month. He described the United States as being in the grip of a ‘censorship-industrial complex’, which purports to counter ‘misinformation, otherwise known as being wrong on the internet’.

The second important takeaway from the Twitter Files is the dubious nature of a lot of what is passed off as ‘evidence’ in mainstream media. Much of what is treated as undisputed fact is just recycled opinions, hypotheses and insinuations, often from compromised institutions. The fact that Stanford researchers play a central role in the latest cache of Twitter Files reveals the true nature of the think-tank and policy-shop ecosystem. Supposedly, they provide analysis, research and data. But they essentially function as idea-laundering operations. They are not trying to seek the truth so much as manage the narrative.