For two years big tech censored people for telling the truth and everyone has forgotten it even happened…
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Orson Welles, who once convinced a large portion of the country that we were being invaded by aliens, would be flabbergasted at just how many people fell for a completely made up disease with a blatantly poisonous fake cure.
did that actually happen, or is that story just the media jacking themselves off as to how important and impactful they are?
"The media" didn't really exist at the time, it was a spoken radio drama that simply didn't say it was fictional.
The newspapers of the era had already been badly damaged by the revelation that they'd been covering up for Roosevelt being a legless cripple(because they all knew and had a deal with him to keep it quiet), so if anything people were less inclined to believe it than they would have been otherwise of you ask me.
Wait, Roosevelt being in a chair wasn't public knowledge?