Keep Posting. Keep Sharing. It’s Doing More Good Than You Know.

Why else would they be so desperate to shut it down?

I sometimes hear conservative and libertarian activists say “If all you’re doing is posting articles and memes on social media, you’re not really getting anything done.” It’s a well-intended statement meant to spur people to greater political involvement — don’t just post, get out there and be active. And while more effort is always better, I’m starting to think that the effect of sharing of pro-liberty content to social media is greatly underestimated.

Over the last several years, absolutely every institution has been toiling feverishly to promote a series of false left-wing narratives, and yet despite this avalanche of narrative support, polls show a majority of Americans aren’t buying them.

According to Rasmussen, sixty-percent of likely US voters now suspect that outcomes of recent elections have been affected by cheating. How is that possible? We have been told ad nauseam by all the mainstream media, by US officials, by celebrities and influencers, by nighttime comedians, by every lever of institutional influence that our elections are safe and secure and that there is literally no evidence of voter fraud. And yet a majority of people are seeing through that official narrative.

Sixty-five percent of likely US voters think undercover government agents probably helped provoke the so-called J6 riot. How is that possible? We have been told again and again by very poised, well-coiffed, well-spoken, serious officials that J6 was the product of perhaps pre-planned actions of militant right-wingers or at the very least the product of hysterical Trump supporters responding to a secret dog whistle by the former President. And this official story has been unfailingly repeated by every respected mainstream media source. Years after the fact, 60 Minutes is still carrying water for this story. And yet a majority of people are seeing through that official narrative.

Sixty-seven percent of likely US voters are not only not surprised by recent revelations that the COVID virus emerged from a lab in Wuhan but suspect the US government is involved in a cover-up. How is that possible? We just experienced three years of being told there was no way no how that this was anything but a natural occurrence and that anyone believing the lab leak theory was a dangerous conspiracy nut and probable racist. And yet a majority of people are seeing through that official narrative.

If people aren’t believing these official stories, where are they getting the information counter to it?

Well, there’s a hint from the recent Twitter files revelations. Thanks to files released by Elon Musk we now know that for years Twitter was cheerfully and enthusiastically coordinating with government officials to censor people posting articles that ran counter to the narrative, to ban dissenting thoughts. There is only one reason they would bother to do this: because the pro-liberty articles people were posting on social media were having an effect.

There’s another hint from Facebook. Articles posted there are now screened through highly-sophisticated software to detect “disinformation,” i.e., anything that runs counter to the mainstream narrative. What does not agree with that narrative is, at the very least, footnoted with an authoritative “fact-check” that runs counter to it. There is only one reason Facebook would bother to do this: because such posting is having an effect.

Governments everywhere are funding technologies and working in other ways with Big Tech to stop the sharing of information counter to state-approved narratives. Why? Because people sharing information on a personal level via social media are getting past the censors. They’re having an effect.

When you see all these organizations trying desperately to censor unapproved thoughts posted to social media, and using every technological tool at their disposal, it means the posting and sharing of such content is working. It’s helping to undermine the official narratives.

So posting and sharing good pro-liberty content is not the trivial thing that some seem to believe. Yes, some of what you post will be censored, some undermined with “fact checks,” but some will also get through.

Within the compass of your connections you are likely moving the needle of opinion, and with all of us doing likewise — having a big and positive effect on the national conversation.