‘Those who seek to suppress disinformation may be destined, themselves, to sow it.’

‘I’ve spent too many years in censored countries like Egypt, Russia and China to believe that our disinformation problem can be solved by monitoring speech and sorting out acceptable from unacceptable ideas. You end up in a society where nobody really believes anything,’ New York Times opinion writer Megan Stack.

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Now New York Times turns on Fauci: Former China correspondent slams COVID tsar’s efforts to tamp down lab leak theory, lies about effectiveness of masks and keenness to impose stringent lockdown rules

The New York Times appeared to turn on Dr. Anthony Fauci in a recently published opinion essay that criticized the former NIH director’s approach to information sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Times contributing opinion writer Megan Stack wrote a column titled ‘Dr. Fauci Could Have Said a Lot More,’ that primarily explored the government scientist’s stifling of the COVID lab leak theory that most Americans have now come to believe.

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Attempting to ‘clean up disinformation’ by suppressing discourse ‘creates its own dangers,’ she wrote, adding that she assumed the Chinese government would lockdown certain pieces of information, but was not prepared to witness the US behaving similarly.

‘I could not have predicted, however, that mentioning the laboratories would become socially unacceptable back in the United States…I was unnerved to see mainstream consensus lashing out in opposition to an idea that I understood to be plausible.’

Fauci’s actions, she wrote, including knowingly promoting a false narrative around the lab leak theory and lying to the public about the early necessity of masking are ways in which the then-top government scientist promoted disinformation in a theoretical effort to help.

‘I’ve spent too many years in censored countries like Egypt, Russia and China to believe that our disinformation problem can be solved by monitoring speech and sorting out acceptable from unacceptable ideas. You end up in a society where nobody really believes anything.’ 

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