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Comedian, actor and commentator Russell Brand called out the fact that Twitter once represented the Wild West of free speech, but has since become a machine for controlling public opinion. The unexpected rise of former President Donald Trump propelled the shift, he observed.
without explaining the actual crimes. (My emphasis) Taibbi’s essay is well worth reading in full. He makes a reasoned case that the fawningly adulatory coverage of President Biden’s activities resembles the style of the old Soviet Media (about which he knows a great deal). And he has identified a crucial shift in the American MSM: Instead of appearing as props in a phony rendering of objectivity, Republicans in basically all non-Fox media have been moved off the legitimacy spectrum, and appear as foils only. Allowable opinion is now depicted stretching all the way from one brand of “mod...