If a group of power brokers controls knowledge, that = shaping knowledge in accordance with the group's intentions.
For example, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) produced several narratives about what occurred in Wuhan and Hubei Province: a) no problem; b) few deaths; c) Americans probably introduced the virus. Many Chinese now believe c), that Americans introduced the virus, and are encouraged by the CCP to target their anger against the U.S. The 7 centers in Wuhan which up to Dec. 2019 had among them 84 crematoria, each working 4 hrs a day, in 5 day weeks, suddenly found them working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with crematoria workers moved to Wuhan from other parts of China. Additionally, 14 more mobile crematoria were moved to Wuhan. During the first two weeks in March, when Wuhan people apparently have a local, yearly ceremony of burying their departed relatives' ashes, instead of the 4,500 urns that typically supply the 11 million people of Wuhan's ceremonial burial needs, about 45,000 more urns were shipped to Wuhan. This speaks to the WHO and American media's parroting of the CCP line about b), i.e. few deaths.
A book of Fang Fang's online columns, written during the plague year 2020, will be published in English in late June, 2020; she has been vilified by the CCP re documenting the disparities of a). Its title: "Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City." Fang Fang is a well-liked author, has won several major awards, and when the CCP terrorists questioned her neighbors, in an attempt to smear her, they bravely defended her writing as true description. This rise in some Chinese people's bravery is worrisome to the CCP, even to the extent that there are now two factions among the CCP leadership, termed the "red hand" and the "white hand" factions.
https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/fang-fang-the-conscience-of-wuhan-amid-coronavirus-quarantine/