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There’s a layer deeper than the "story," Jasmine. It’s about institutional preservation and expansion.
Across the West, govt and quasi-govt bodies are dominated by a specific ideological class — ie to the left. They hold the reins de facto and, increasingly, de jure.
‘Misinformation’ is about de jure control.
Human nature is simple: No one gives up power voluntarily.
These institutions can only preserve and expand their power if they control the language.
Why?
Because language is the medium through which an institution entrenches itself. It’s how it both births and secures its existence, via legislation or regulation, along with access to the public purse.
Having worked in law, I’ve seen this firsthand. Govt-driven power is entirely linguistic.
Media frames this as "stories," but it’s actually the administrative machinery protecting its own footprint.
In a regulatory context, if an institution can legally define a challenge to its narrative as "misinformation," it gains the power to act. It turns a subjective disagreement into a procedural violation, and that’s where it gains power.
This is how the power becomes de jure.
We’re moving from informal social pressure to formal legislative frameworks. These laws codify an institution’s ideological preferences into the letter of the law.
Once it’s in the statutes, the institution’s survival is no longer up for debate; it is legally mandated, tax-funded, and structurally protected.
Those who work for the entrenched institution, have now also entrenched themselves: all through the power of language.
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