media cover ups and big tech basically shaming/hiding anyone who had a "dissenting" view/opinion.

Regardless of what people me believe or feel about Musk - him buying twitter and removing the shackles has really changed things. Community notes have people thinking twice of what they put on there since its actually crowd source fact checking vs a biased paid team from the left.

If this was revealed a year ago it would have been buried - it takes time people are more open now to believing something like this than before.