Report: UK Govt's Secret Unit Stifled COVID Policy Dissent

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    The Spin

    Establishment-critical narrative

    In tandem with Big Tech and media conglomerates, the government actively spied on and censored highly-respected scientists to keep them from challenging pandemic lockdowns. Public policies may have changed had the nation been aware of prominent experts' dissenting views, but freedom of scientific debate was stifled in favor of ideological ruling. It's time for this report to be independently investigated.

    Pro-establishment narrative

    The CDU is not a secret authoritarian spy agency — it's a publicly known division of the PM's cabinet and abides by the laws of the UK. Moreover, while data may be gathered from a social media platform, any decision to take down individual posts is at the discretion of the forum concerned, not the government. Furthermore, since the CDU uses third parties to analyze disinformation, it's misleading to suggest that the government 'spied' on critics of pandemic policy.

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