Misinformation Chatter

 Up to the 1890s....if you got news...it came from some local/regional newspaper.  If the authorities were 'upset' (no matter if in the UK, Europe or US)....they'd set the police upon your establishment and wreck the printing press.

In the 1890s, you started to notice news 'magazines'.  These were a once-a-month publication, and usually drilled down upon just a couple of topics for 20-odd pages of material.  If you wanted to make the case that it was designed to get you inflamed....you probably had a case.  

In the 1930s....radio news arrived (throughout the US and Europe).  The BBC made it's case that it would be 'fair' and 'accurate'.  Hitler's crew went in a different direction.  

By the 1950s....TV news arrived.  As much as you wanted to believe intent and attentive effort, you probably saw at least once a day....some type of misinformation dished out.

In the 1960s, you began to get local TV news....which consumed another half-an-hour of time and increased the level of misinformation.

Talk-radio in the 1990s?  It simply added another layer of potential misinformation. 

Internet sits blooming in the late 1990s?  Another layer of potential misinformation.

Social media?  Tik-Tok, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and F-Book?  They simply added more confusion in the end. Citizen-journalists?  They only came to exist because of the decline of the journalistic trade itself.

So we are at a odd point with this battle brewing between the EU 'control-mindset' and Twitter.  In actuality....the other players (Tik-Tok, F-Book and even the TV news empire) are handcuffed to the way that Twitter will be handled.

Oddly enough....all these years, the EU actively talked about how it was solving political problems and often talking about them.  But now, there's some fear that talk may misfire, so you need control.

Timing of this fight with Musk?  Well....why the hell would you select this period....five months before the EU election to mount a major 'control-war'?  

You almost get the idea that Putin and his FSB henchmen have dreamed up this situation to bring chaos to the EU and bring radicals into position within the EU structure.

The comical side of this?  You would need a full-time crew of 20,000 EU employees to continually monitor for misinformation....minute by minute, and a second crew of 3,000 behind them to see if the 20,000 were doing their job correctly or misusing the authority.