https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...
* The PRC government right now
* Pretty much any government behind the iron curtain during the cold war
* The Catholic church over much of its history
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I mean, come on. Pick any reasonably competent totalitarian regime and you'll find that one of core pillars of the support structure is precisely "control over public discourse".
So maybe in context putting a fact check link under a tweet doesn't sound so bad?
I agree that Twitter doesn't quite fit this pattern though.