Fascists Caught with Pants Down — Government Paying the Media to Push Getting Vaxxed

That was fast.  After telling me my Freedom of Information Act request on COVID vaccine injuries and safety was “complex”, and telling me they needed extra time because they had to consult with the manufacturers, the CDC answered my request lickety-split.  I had filed a petition for expedited processing at the beginning of this week and the CDC gave me responses the very next day.  I’m still evaluating them and will report my next move to you soon.  Stay tuned.

In the course of filing for expedited processing, I learned the government has been paying media outlets to tell the public the vaccines are safe.  The money went to ABC, CBS, and NBC; cable news outlets CNN, Fox, and MSNBC; major newspapers like the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times; Internet news companies including BuzzFeed; and hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations.  Distressingly, conservative news outlets were among those taking the money.  Coverage from all these outlets was almost all positive, parroting the government narrative the vaccines are safe and effective.   The wall of government money and media complicity succeeded in marginalizing anyone who questioned the party line.  This shows you the validity of what I’ve said many times: we do not want the government deciding for everybody what is true and what is false.  We also do not want the government paying others to shove official phony narratives down our throats.

The story also illustrates the dangers of corporate fascism – the combination of Big Government and Big Business with unchecked power to cook up a phony narrative and carpet-bomb the country with it, enriching corporate cronies in the process.  Our Founders would have looked at that and said it offended limited government by concentrating too much power in too few hands.

The government paying media to sing the praises of the vaccines also illustrates the viability of the state actor theory pinning legal liability on Internet companies who claim to be neutral communication pipes but, in some instances, collaborate with the government to push government-approved messages and censor contrary information. There’s no reason not to hold them legally responsible like newspapers for their editorial decisions made under those circumstances.

So one might reasonably speculate Facebook became a state actor and faces liability for forming an alliance last June to “build confidence” in COVID vaccines and overcome so-called “vaccine hesitancy”. Doesn’t sound like a neutral pipe to me.  The alliance was funded with $20 million from Facebook and $20 million from the drug giant Merck.  The World Health Organization (WHO) is a partner, as is the CDC Foundation which is the fundraising arm of the Centers for Disease Control, a government agency.  The Foundation admits it is associated with the alliance for the purpose of reaching the public with its approved message.  The alliance communicated with White House staff.

By the way, Facebook’s so-called ‘fact-checkers’ charged with rooting out supposed COVID ‘misinformation’ from the platform are being paid in part by Pfizer, a COVID vaccine manufacturer.  Also, the U.S. Surgeon General just asked social media companies for a list of COVID skeptics and influencers.  The FDA pressured YouTube to remove a video that discussed a new monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID.  So there you have it: social media platforms immunized from legal liability teaming up with government officials to enforce a narrative the government has decided is true.  Ain’t fascism grand?

One observer cut to the chase and called Facebook’s alliance with an arm of the CDC a “government propaganda campaign”.   Another said, “It creates a dangerous precedent when social media outlets are carrying the government’s message while suppressing messaging that’s contrary to what the government is trying to promote.”  Another said Facebook could be held liable under the state actor theory for vaccine-related injuries that occurred because Facebook promoted the vaccines.  That’s a lot of potential liability.  As of today, there are almost 25,000 deaths and over 1.1 million adverse reactions that may have been caused by the COVID vaccines in the U.S. alone.

So my message to wannabe fascists everywhere, Wright’s Rule: Live by the narrative, die by the narrative.

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