Aug. 2, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| I don't know if people remember because it's now just so far in the distant past of our memories. | |
| Social media and the internet was all about not censoring. | |
| It was all about freedom. | |
| This was going to be the way that we kept freedom as Americans and a whole new world was going to be opened up to us. | |
| But that door has been slammed shut by those who lobbied to try to get these companies to curate and censor and fake fact-checked stuff that they don't want people to see and prioritize what shows up in your searches. | |
| We are now in an overly managed information landscape that wasn't even, I think, envisioned initially. | |
| And then another part of that is the role that the media plays because the media used to be, I thought, we were the great equalizer. | |
| The news, those of us who work in it, might expect that political figures wouldn't always be honest about their goals and that corporate and other political interests might want to not give pure information because they're trying to look out for their own interests. | |
| But we in the press were supposed to be there so that we could hold their feet to the fire, provide other information, unearth facts they didn't want you to know. | |
| And pretty soon, though, we got swept into this system of narratives and propaganda, making us, I think, today, not all of us, but making a great deal of the media, little more than propaganda tools used as a tool to deliver the narrative unthinkingly in most cases, |
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