Q Anon /Taibbi ... The Rabbit Hole

 Into the rabbit hole we go....

 https://taibbi.substack.com/p/after-the-qanon-ban-whos-next?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cta

'However, one could say the same thing about a hundred other recent stories that were not policed in the same way, including a similar bait-and-switch involving Melania Trump. A tape of the First Lady saying “Give me a fucking break,” allegedly about border kids, turned out to be something else, even opposite, in context — she was actually swearing at her media critics, not children. But once sanctified by the New York Times and reporters from other major outlets, many of whom dumped the quote online without the context, it’s unlikely to be pulled. 

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy

In secretly recorded audio, Melania Trump says about reporters asking her about kids separated at border: "Give me a fucking break." She assails the "liberal media," says she doesn't want to do a story on Fox, and adds, "Who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff and decorations?"

October 2nd 2020

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That’s not to stress the victimhood of Melania Trump (Hillary Clinton has been the target of far more nastiness), but to note how arbitrary this all is. “Reputable” news sources tend not to get dinged for the same behavior as small accounts, even when they’re running transparent conspiratorial gibberish. Tales of Cuban sound weapons, killer Putin-dolphins, or a recent Washington Post warning that we are being targeted by a foreign campaign of “perception hacking,” or “manipulating people into thinking they are being manipulated,” represent just a few examples of Approved™ nonsense.

With this new, non-transparent, private star-chamber type system, what content we do and do not see is now dependent upon upper-class intellectual fashions, and the whims of politicians, media employees, and executives at tech firms.' from the above story by Matt Taibbi