reclaimthenet on Nostr: The UK’s Covid Inquiry is shaping up to be less about truth and more about ...
The UK’s Covid Inquiry is shaping up to be less about truth and more about reinforcing the government’s narrative.
Instead of investigating how officials trampled on free speech, the inquiry seems fixated on whether “mis/disinformation” caused vaccine hesitancy — weaponizing those terms to silence critics of lockdowns, mandates, and Covid policies.
Dr. Alan Black and Molly Kingsley point to the government’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), which flagged dissenting opinions online as misinformation. Now, rather than scrutinizing this censorship, the inquiry appears to be asking whether the government did enough to control the narrative.
Instead of investigating how officials trampled on free speech, the inquiry seems fixated on whether “mis/disinformation” caused vaccine hesitancy — weaponizing those terms to silence critics of lockdowns, mandates, and Covid policies.
Dr. Alan Black and Molly Kingsley point to the government’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), which flagged dissenting opinions online as misinformation. Now, rather than scrutinizing this censorship, the inquiry appears to be asking whether the government did enough to control the narrative.