Sometimes media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

Earth’s richest person has transformed Twitter into the cornerstone of the right-wing media ecosystem – which makes him one of the powers behind Trump’s throne.

The Independent

Surveying the wreckage after the 2024 election, many post-mortems have tried to explain the tactical or messaging mishaps that led to Trump’s victory. But a lot of them have missed the most obvious culprit: the media.

Free Press

MAGA media outlets are showcasing the extreme policies a second Trump administration would enact

Flux

And if you’re committed to the idea that President Trump 2.0 will bring “freedom” back, for all his “free speech” bluster, Trump has always been hostile to free expression — threatening and enacting government action on his opponents, filing financially-crippling bogus lawsuits against news organizations and literally calling for his political opponents to be imprisoned.

MSNBC

The rumors of election fraud were driven by a sincere conviction at the grassroots, exacerbated by the speed at which sensational stories go viral on social media today—information flies before the facts can even be established. But their real lift came from boosts by explicitly ideological and cynical right-wing influencers.

The Unpopulist

That this new passion for book banning coincides with the rise of Donald J. Trump, MAGA Republicanism and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s failed “anti-woke” presidential campaign is no accident.

Fair Observer

The equivalence that Vance draws between social-media moderation and Trump trying to stage a coup is ridiculous, but revealing in terms of how conservatives have come to conceive of free speech: They believe that right-wing speech should be sacrosanct, and liberal speech officially disfavored.

The Atlantic