NPR's official Twitter feeds have gone silent. The news organization cites the social media platform's decision to question NPR's editorial independence through a series of inaccurate labels.
What’s more is that the whole free speech narrative ultimately hinged on these people having media dominance. As long as they controlled what the mainstream views were, a bit of dissent was allowed at the edges. The fact that dissent was allowed fed into propaganda narrative that the mainstream views were popular because of their correctness. This helped create a system of self censorship where people ignored any information that didn’t come from the official sources. Now that they’re losing control of the narrative they’re starting to panic.
That’s the problem with using this kind of labels for propaganda purposes: it will eventually come back and bite you.
What’s more is that the whole free speech narrative ultimately hinged on these people having media dominance. As long as they controlled what the mainstream views were, a bit of dissent was allowed at the edges. The fact that dissent was allowed fed into propaganda narrative that the mainstream views were popular because of their correctness. This helped create a system of self censorship where people ignored any information that didn’t come from the official sources. Now that they’re losing control of the narrative they’re starting to panic.