Balaji Srinivasan

Only another journo.

Only WHA could check NYT, could check WAPO.

So there's an incentive for collusion, just like there is between any set of corporations.

And what they do is they collude, and this is what they did in the 2010s and so on, where they could never be wrong about a story like Russiagate or something, because they all just basically repeated the same thing ad nauseum.

And you were misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, blah, blah, blah, for contesting that story, which eventually later they all admitted together was false.

But by admitting it together, that's another concept, the school of fish strategy, right?

Lots of these false stories we now know are false, but there's no accountability for them because you are an individual, but they are a school of fish, okay?

So that's the school of fish strategy is basically this.

Here's a great visual of it, ready?

If you put this on screen.

So you are the individual, but all the NPCs just turn as a group, right?

Okay, right?

So that is this key concept where all the journos see that this is the advantage of being an NPC.

If you're an NPC, you're just repeating what everybody else is saying.

Because you're repeating what everybody else is saying, you can't be singled out.

The strength in numbers.

And then when the conventional wisdom shifts from, oh, you know, a lab leak was a conspiracy theory to a lab leak is within the range of acceptable things, they can just shift what they're saying

and they don't pay any penalty.

But if you're the first to say something that's outside of the spectrum, then you can get attacked like this, okay?

Once you actually see that and you realize, oh, okay,