Oh, the irony: about six months of my life was eaten up by trying to convince WHO that healthy people *should* wear masks and now Facebook will ban the following as misinformation. (Now, it is indeed false). Not so irony: we'll ban whatever WHO disputes for now not an ideal rule. pic.twitter.com/wHr8iYhFBn

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) February 8, 2021

Many events that demonstrably happened get memory-holed as “conspiracy theories,” often by the very people and orgs who had been pushing the opposite narrative only months or years before.

We’ve always been at war with Eastasia….