If the last few years have shown anything, it's that the source of all power is media power. Deeply held religious beliefs, identities, and what once would have been called irrefutable common sense can be transformed in a remarkably short time if you have media power. "The Great Awokening" is one manifestation of this, as liberal whites living under a System that discriminates against them in jobs and education truly believe that we are in a racist hellhole. They believe this more than nonwhites themselves. 

However, at least some people don't believe the Main Stream Media, the official Narrative. More than the distinction between liberals and conservatives, the real division in American politics is between the people who believe the MSM and those that don't. The Internet theoretically provides people with a way to communicate without having to go through the MSM.

Unfortunately, the value of free speech is another one of those things that liberals would have said was self-evidently good just a few years ago which they now think is evil. Thus, most journalism today consists of demands to shut down speech. For now, this is being done through the private sector.

Elizabeth Warren wants to skip the middleman altogether, and simply criminalize "disinformation." 

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation and to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election.

“Disinformation and online foreign interference erode our democracy, and Donald Trump has invited both,” Warren said in a Tweet Wednesday. “Anyone who seeks to challenge and defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election must be fully prepared to take this on – and I’ve got a plan to do it.”

Warren proposed to combat disinformation by holding big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google responsible for spreading misinformation designed to suppress voters from turning out.

“I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly disseminating this kind of information, which has the explicit purpose of undermining the basic right to vote,” Warren said in a release.

[Elizabeth Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading disinformation online, by Sunny Kim, CNBC, January 29, 2020]

Of course, as many others pointed out on Twitter (cautiously, lest they be banned), the only reason any of us know who Elizabeth Warren is is because she pretended to be an American Indian for career advantage. Would commenting on that be "disinformation" under her proposed law? After all, calling her a liar might reduce Democrat turnout.