They know that barely anyone reads it, and barely anyone knows what's in it, so for now they're trying to reverse the content and make people think that the message of 1984 is "trust the authorities and support the community," when in fact it is the opposite.

This may or may not work. It depends on how successfully they can reframe the book and on how strong peoples' confirmation bias can be. Is bias really strong enough to make people extract the opposite message from a book, even when they've read it, just because they've been primed to see something that isn't there? Who knows.

If reframing the book doesn't work, then they'll try to ban it on a larger scale. Right now it's just small splinter groups trying to ban it, and the authorities are either pretending it doesn't exist, or reversing the meaning of it.

They know that barely anyone reads it, and barely anyone knows what's in it, so for now they're trying to reverse the content and make people think that the message of 1984 is "trust the authorities and support the community," when in fact it is the opposite.

This may or may not work. It depends on how successfully they can reframe the book and on how strong peoples' confirmation bias can be. Is bias really strong enough to make people extract the opposite message from a book, even when they've read it? Who knows.

If reframing the book doesn't work, then they'll try to ban it on a larger scale. Right now it's just small splinter groups trying to ban it, and the authorities are either pretending it doesn't exist, or reversing the meaning of it.