The tricky thing is that it’s not only political. People can also get rich and famous by peddling misinformation online. Rather than suppress information, we need to dismantle the incentive structure that rewards people for spreading lies.
I'm not making a dime. I've been moderating coronavirus forums for free since January 2020, reviewing papers, and judging whether things were misinformation. What I saw was that the virus was burning out in May 2020, but we ramped up PCR testing and started testing healthy people using a way too high cycle count. All this did was inflate the perception of danger and sustain the panic. Private hospitals were (and still are) being paid to diagnose COVID. 94% of COVID deaths were actually deaths with COVID and an average of >2 comorbidities at an age averaging about the normal life expectancy. I saw therapeutics like HCQ and Ivermectin smeared fraudulently. I saw common sense therapeutics like Zinc, Quercetin, and Vitamin D (which are incredibly effective at mitigating COVID) ignored. It was 100% vaccines, lockdowns, masks, and nothing else, even though the research clearly showed that this was a nonsensical approach.
From there I became more and more flabbergasted at the disinformation coming from official sources and the media, especially around the safety and efficacy of these mRNA therapeutics.
It's natural for people to distrust governments and committees which have proven themselves untrustworthy - and to come up with their own explanations for what's happening, whether accurate or not.
The funny thing about combatting "misinformation" is that it requires that you either dissolve democratic processes and implement totalitarian measures, or you simply regain the trust of the people. We all know which option was chosen.