In the sordid chapter of intellectual history known as the Covid Era, governments— colluding with NGOs, social media platforms and legacy mass media outlets—have engaged in nudging, shaming, censoring, blacklisting, reach suppression, bot attacks, narrative controlling, discourse manipulation, perspective starving, and outright lying. In short, they engaged, and continue to engage in campaigns launched against their own citizens to stymie the free flow of information and dissent from official narratives.
On February 26th, Pandata hosted a Twitter Spaces discussion on the topic of this covid-related propaganda war.
Highly recommend.