The most significant political moment in the US since 9/11 and its aftermath was when liberal institutions decided that Trump's 2016 election wasn't a failure of status quo politics but a failure of information control. All the other bullshit since then has followed from this.
This was when the belief among mainstream journalists became widespread that internet censorship is needed and that it is their duty to manipulate public opinion. Another 2016 WikiLeaks drop in 2020 would never have been reported on, as evidenced by the Hunter laptop scandal.
Now we're seeing an increasing homogenization of online information as the media class cheers on censorship in the name of fighting Russia, white supremacism, Covid misinformation, and in the name of protecting US elections, etc, while the media acts weirder and weirder.
The way the entire mass media jumped right on board the Russiagate narrative instead of asking what's true, for example, or the way many questionable claims about Covid which have since been invalidated were asserted with adamant aggression; this all followed from that moment.
And now we're watching cold war escalations continually ramp up against Russia and China, and the mass media are forcefully and uncritically pumping all US government narratives into public consciousness. The 2016 reshaping of their values lubricated the way for this.
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