The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
From skimming the article:<p>* The CDC “errors” are from the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, when we didn’t know that much about COVID-19 and were still learning about the virus.  As just one example, the author seems to have a short memory: It was pretty hard to wear a mask all of the time when masks were not available to buy, so initially saving masks for front line medical workers until they were widely available <i>was</i> a sensible idea.<p>* The allegations of corruption on Hunter Biden’s part are still considered a conspiracy theory: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Biden–Ukraine_conspiracy_theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Biden–Ukraine_conspira...</a><p>* Whenever I read an article which talks about the “establishment narrative”, alarm bells ring in my head.  This is a common trope among conspiracy theory proponents.<p>I’m disappointed this kind of article borderline espousing conspiracy theories made the front page of Ycombinator.  @deng: I don’t think it serves Ycombinator’s interests to have this kind of article prominent.<p>Edit: The article has been flagged.  Good riddance to bad rubbish.  The article used, for the CDC example, the fallacy that, in so many words, “since the CDC made some errors in the early days of COVID-19, the CDC is deliberately spreading disinformation to support a narrative”.  No, COVID-19 was a new virus, there was a lot we didn’t know back in March of 2020 when we shut everything down, and the scientific consensus has changed as we got more facts to build conclusions from.  Changing what we know based on new research is not evidence of spreading disinformation; <i>that’s how science works</i>.