Yes, this is the same argument used when the Biden admin during covid pressured the media companies to cancel people and news they did not like for "misinformation" instead of calling it censorship. This and LEOs buying data from Big Corp is just end-running the 1st and 4th amendments which is ultimately fascism.

It’s again legal for the US government to publish propaganda targeted against their citizens,

so you’ll struggle to ever know for sure what’s unadulterated US media.