The chart puts Infowars, Alex Jones’s conspiracy website, closer to the center than Time magazine. Essentially, conservatives want to create a world where objective information and right-wing disinformation are treated equally. Only now, these howls about viewpoint discrimination have the force of the United States government behind them. Social media executives have had to testify before Congress and answer for spurious instances of anti-conservative censorship. This morphed into claims that Facebook had deliberately engineered a decline in their traffic, even though it had not, in fact, declined.

Source: New York Times August 30, 2018 23:48 UTC