Never underestimate how far they will go in order to ensure narrative reinforcement.
Media control, is not just about shaping public perception.
It is the historical record by which future generations gauge what was, in order to decide what is and what will be.
Narrative control is everything if you intend on remaining in power for centuries at a time.
The ability to manipulate, misreport to your benefit, and otherwise skew events underway; sets the tone going forward generations into a future our feet will never tread. Particularly when you happen to control the permanent records civilization will later adhere to as carefully documented fact.
When looking back, what sort of narrative will be left standing?
This is a huge part of why the issue of censorship is so important.
As information is increasingly held in purely digital spaces, and the actual written record becomes a thing of the past, we are faced with the harrowing thought of a controlled, false intelligence.
A reality based only on the perception given by those whom control what can and cannot be said or thought.
Digital spaces can be removed quickly, as we have seen in recent years. Whole swathes of thought simply erased and made nonexistent to the slumbering world.
This is why the Deep State is currently after both your ability to gather together, and your ability to freely publish your words and speak out.
Because the greatest threat to their control, is the free exchange of basic Truth.