If you are a very online person, you know that there are three things that you can absolutely trust one hundred percent:
1. Democrats bemoan the Electoral College after every presidential election loss.
2. After a mass shooting, going after “assault weapons” or “white supremacy,” according to the author. We’ll leave it to you to figure out which narrative they’ll choose and why.
And finally, the point of this put up (drum roll).
3. Media figures who rage against “misinformation” every time they lose control of the narrative.
General overview: Mark Zuckerberg just announced sweeping changes to the social web, all in line with the wishes of President Trump and Trump voters.
Out with the fact-checkers that conservatives mock. With more permissive rules for publishing conservative opinions.
-Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 12, 2025
We know, and they in the media know, that they have an obvious left leaning. But then, in 2016, something happened. Triumph. He made the media his foil and called them “fake news.” And then something even stranger happened: they accepted it and became a clown show. They let their flag of partiality fly. CNN changed its mission under Jeff Zucker to be nonstop Trump counterprogramming. The Washington Submit decided to become “the newspaper of the resistance” by turning columnists into jokes (hello Jen Rubin!).
And all this for the low cost of its integrity. So, with his reputation in tatters and the rise of alternative media, one might think a little self-reflection would be in order.
One would be wrong. The industry standard response is to double your bet and then double it again. Hence the constant and reliable number three mentioned above.
The only silver lining in all of this is that the left-wing media is becoming irrelevant even as it laments only right-wing misinformation and approves of its own.
Gone are the days of Democrats deciding what is “truth,” Brian. https://t.co/YGaXH4xW3c
— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) January 12, 2025
Yeah!
Daniel Dale hasn’t gotten the memo either.
– Rex Ratio (Official) (@vermontaigne) January 12, 2025
Since we were on the topic of CNN. Dale was part of the “fact-checking” clown brigade that only seemed to find misinformation when it came from Trump and then, strangely, seemed to largely disappear between 2020 and 2024.
Conservatives should be allowed to have opinions and publish them under the same “permissive rules” that progressives always seem to enjoy.
I never understood why this was so controversial!
-Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 12, 2025
(gif of Michael Scott yelling “No! No!)
Look at the way this propagandist approaches the concept of freedom of speech. Reading this put up is like going to the zoo. https://t.co/gcAz7s9RpK
– Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) January 12, 2025
What a wonderful analogy.
If fact checkers weren’t so wrong on almost every issue, Bri, we could trust them.
– Hunter’s laptop.
– COVID lab leak
– COVID Tips
– Masks https://t.co/O5S9kHb31W– GraceUnderPressure (@ExitStageRite) January 12, 2025
It is always good to save receipts.
“Permissive rules for publishing conservative opinions”
I’m sorry this is happening to you. https://t.co/qqvzirRE2M
—Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) January 12, 2025
Get on the couch passed out, Brian!
Allow conservatives to have a voice? How dare you, sir? pic.twitter.com/Phh4ZRSfdn
-Vin Tanner (@VinTanner417682) January 12, 2025
Journalists against freedom of expression https://t.co/4cU6YW2mX9
– jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) January 12, 2025
In truth, the free flow of information is too valuable to be entrusted to the unwashed masses.
Fact Checking: The “fact checkers” we refer to here are not fact checkers but rather narrative enforcers favored by Democrats. https://t.co/3gsYicwNoS
– Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) January 12, 2025
Pretty much sums up the whole point, right there.
