Silenced voices can speak loudest of all

AS the American Senate tries to establish to what extent Russia influenced the election of President Donald Trump and as YouTube has to climb down over false conspiracy theories on the Las Vegas shooting, the what-can-we-believe questions scream ever louder. 

A subsidiary question — does it really matter in our post-truth world? — can’t be avoided either.

These questions focus on private organisations absolutely free to control the views its media outlets facilitate. Exercising that right often places an organisation in a certain frame in the public perception. It is not a power without a cost; the voices silenced often speak loudest of all.