Today I'm speaking with journalist and writer David Swag about, among other topics, his

involvement in the Twitter files, the culture of silence and fear and suppression around

discussing COVID-19 related stories and the detrimental effects of lockdowns on a generation

of children.

So David, one of the things I really wanted to talk to you today, I think it'd be interesting

to go behind the scenes with regards to the Twitter files.

I mean, the Twitter, so-called Twitter files with Matt Taibe, particularly leading the charge

in my understanding, didn't get a lot of legacy media coverage, surprise, surprise, and that

story was downplayed, but of course it was a viral occurrence online, particularly

on Twitter.

And rightly so, as far as I was concerned, because my sense was that it indicated, illustrated,

demonstrated a tremendous degree of behind the scenes collusion between most worrisomely

government officials and Twitter in particular, but media in general with regards so-called

to crafting the narrative around COVID.

And I'm not very impressed by government media collusion efforts to craft narratives.

That's certainly not the media's role.

That's 100% certain to craft narratives with the government.

And I don't think that that's justified, even in the face of a so-called emergency.

In fact, that might be the time when it's most important for the media to not collude

with the government so that we can be sure that the response to the emergency isn't

worse than the bloody emergency, or isn't ill-founded in some other grounds, because it

often is.

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