“If you look at the Twitter Files on how the Biden laptop was censored, the FBI went to Facebook's* team and they warned them in advance saying ‘hey, there's going be a Russian disinformation campaign (during the 2020 elections) linked to Burisma, something to do with Hunter Biden.’ So they kind of hinted, and Mark Zuckerberg talked about it, I think on the Joe Rogan show, they kind of prepared them, they kind of planted the seed” for censorship, Nawfal said.

“And there are instances in the Twitter Files, when you go through this communication that Elon released, there are many instances with Twitter employees, and I think the same will apply to Meta/Facebook and Google, where they tried to resist certain requests for censorship. But it's very difficult to say no to the CIA, to the FBI and to those three letter agencies.”

“But I don't know if he has what it takes to be able to change such a deep-rooted issue in the complex system that we call a 'democracy.' I think there are so many layers to it that it's almost impossible to kind of break it all down, and I just don't see how any president will be able to change that, unless that we see significant action. You know, Trump has had four years to do that. We haven't seen much of it,” Nawfal said.

“The algorithm wants you to stay on that platform, so what does it do? It feeds you the content that relates to you. So if you're pro-Trump, you want to listen to content that's criticizing Biden and supporting Trump. Because that's what the social media needs companies to do so you spend more time on it so they can make more advertising revenue. What happens when they do this? It becomes a loop that takes you further and further into those echo chambers,” Nawfal explained.

"Essentially the algorithm forces everyone to have different echo chambers. So it's kind of become embedded in society to take a stance. Media companies have taken a stance. Social media companies' algorithms for financial purposes force people to get into their own echo chambers," he said.

"If you add censorship to all this, then not only are algorithms of social media companies pushing you further down your whatever belief you have and kind of preventing you from listening to something that could challenge what you believe, which is very important for anyone really in any society. Censorship adds another layer to this, where companies and governments further force their narrative down your throat in a very subtle way without you even knowing,” Nawfal said.

“Russians and Ukrainians agree on a lot more than you'd expect, but because of all the parties on both sides involved in the decision making, a simple problem about which territory should be Russia, which territory should be Ukrainian” has been dragged out,” Nawfal said.

"We’ve seen the censorship that happens in every single country around the world, including... Europe, the US, Brazil. Pavel’s arrest takes another social media platform off the list of those who want to censor, those who want power."

"[EU social media regulator boss] Thierry [Breton], sent out a letter to Elon [Musk] before the Trump interview, urging him not to conduct the interview. That’s an interview by an American businessman and an American former president, and they've got the EU sending out a letter warning them on what content they talk about on the platform."

“That’s essentially factual information used with malicious intention. Please let me know how the hell can someone determine whether something is malinformation or not. If you post something that’s factual but criticizes the incumbent governments, is that something that can be censored?”

“The F-16 failure, and expectations of future failures, helps slow down and reduces willingness to send more F-16s to Ukraine... and F-16 losses because they do capture the public imagination are more part of the political narrative of ‘end the war soon before our investors begin to doubt that the landscape of post-war Ukraine will be profitable for them,’” the former analyst for the US Department of Defense and retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

“However, if Kiev wishes to receive more high-end equipment and technology, and even US authorization for deep strikes into Russia -- it must avoid any blame for ongoing losses on its own military, or the combat/logistical/strategic superiority of Russia,” Kwiatkowski stated.

“All honest observers inside and outside this conflict know that Ukraine is fighting with an assortment of equipment that is older, from Soviet era and Vietnam era equipment, often technologically incompatible, operated by people often unfamiliar with these systems, and in a battle-space that is haphazard and not well logistically supported,” she concluded.