The recent "anti-misinformation campaigns" are just attempts to make censorship look scientific.
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There have been numerous efforts by organizations and governments in the US trying to "fight misinformation" all across the internet. Whether it be the White House with their "Ministry of Truth" charade, or tech companies operating as if they are arbiters of truth and will remove anything they "judge" to be misinformation. We even recently saw Paypal threaten to fine users thousands of dollars if they were caught spreading "misinformation". I mean, FFS, talk about dystopian, corporations acting as the "judges of truth" and if they judge you to be wrong, they will fine you huge sums of money.
Really, all of these "anti-misinformation campaigns" are just ways of trying to make their politically motivated censorship and their silencing of political opponents seem "scientific" and "palatable" to the masses. If they called it what it was, they know people would be throwing a fit, instead, they know they just have to rebrand it These new terms "disinformation specialist" or "anti-disinformation group" are simply deceitful euphemisms meant to disguise and deflect away from their mass censorship efforts. What they are really saying is "please trust our science of censorship". Media corporations know the public lost trust in their employees' statements long ago, so they've now created new job titles to glorify themselves, as if they are residing above ordinary subjectivity and bias, looking down on us from their lofty white towers as if they anointed purveyors of what is "true" and "false" in this world. Sorry, but no. What these groups and agenda driven hacks are doing is NOT scientific, it is not unbiased, it is not objective. It is plain as day a politicized farce that thinks you are too stupid to realize that what they are engaging in is authoritarian mass censorship and the squashing of any voices that oppose them.
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