The Disinformation Scam
We shouldn’t embrace the war on disinformation just because the Right hates it.
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Illustration by Philip Lindeman
You didn’t have to be a right-wing nut to agree that a Department of Homeland Security–led “war on disinformation” sounded Orwellian. In May, after just a couple months on the job and a firestorm of internet outrage, Nina Jankowicz — Joe Biden’s “disinformation czar” — resigned, saying that the Disinformation Governance Board’s work was now officially on […]