“The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government” -Dr. @MartyMakary

President Biden says COVID misinformation is killing people

On Covid-19 and beyond, Western democracies are deploying military-grade propaganda to fight dissent

Last April, US President Joe Biden tried to create a new “Disinformation Governance Board” under the Department of Homeland Security, headed up by a former communications advisor to the Ukrainian foreign ministry — a move so grotesquely biased that the whole project was eventually scrapped. That doesn’t mean that domestic information warfare activities have stopped, though. DHS came into existence itself under the pretext of better coordinating national security for the global war on terror. And now that surveillance arsenal is used on citizens who merely have different views. Twitter file releases under new owner, Elon Musk, have shed light on the cozy relationship between government officials — including those working for the Pentagon, CIA, and FBI – and big US social media outlets like Twitter, which routinely cooperated on certain narratives about geopolitical competitors (like Russia) under the guise of fighting “disinformation”.

Western officials have become obsessed with manufacturing consent, and clearly willing to deploy the army to enforce it. They denounce and sanction other nations for authoritarianism, while ignoring that they’re becoming what they claim to loathe.

“The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government”

-Dr. @MartyMakary pic.twitter.com/iONTlGBXbP
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) February 28, 2023