Speaking to Howard Kurtz on Fox’s MediaBuzz, Greenwald raises important question as to why the public has allowed social media companies to usurp the role of consensus creation about what information is true, false, or dangerous to spread.
He said:
“How did Twitter and Facebook become competent to make determinations for all of us about what information is true and false or dangerous or permissible.
If, for example, back in March of 2020 so just a year ago you went online and said that you thought people should wear masks you would have been deemed to have been given misinformation because at the time Dr. Fauci, the World Health Organization and other experts were saying that mask were not only ineffective but could actually be quite dangerous.
That’s the point is that human knowledge of all kinds science political thought evolve and changes constantly what's the consensus today becomes our recognized error tomorrow.
And to have technology companies which have zero competence to do any of this and all and all kinds of incentives to politicize this making decisions for us about what ideas can be disseminated is incredibly dangerous.”
Greenwald then takes on politicians who are going after conservative media. He says "where do members of Congress get off thinking that it's their right or their provenance to issue decrees about what is journalistic integrity what is moral and ethical reporting that is absolutely none of their business there that Target of Journalism they're not the people the police it and dictate who in can in who cannot be heard on the airwaves