Elon Musk Buying Twitter Is Not the End of the World
Regular people are not so terminally online.
Disinformation
President Biden Lies About Guns. Again.
Amidst official hysteria over “misinformation,” the president continues to willfully misrepresent the facts on firearms.
How Government Officials Bully Social Media Companies Into Censorship
A new Cato report sheds light on "jawboning," or attempts by state actors "to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech."
Biden Celebrates $90 Billion Bailout of Private Union Pension Plans
Plus: Don't cry for the failure of Homeland Security's disinformation board, states discover supply-side solutions to labor shortages, and more...
You're Wrong About Disinformation
People believe and say things that aren't true all of the time, of course. But efforts by public officials to combat them may well make things worse, not better.
Nina Jankowicz's Faulty Record, Not Her Critics, Doomed the Disinformation Board
And The Washington Post's wildly one-sided account of Jankowicz's fall was an exercise in government PR.
Don't Trust Biden's Dystopian 'Disinformation Board'
A "disinformation" board sounds like something from a dystopian novel.
Alito, Abortion, and Autonomy
Plus: ruminations on public health, misinformation, and media literacy
The Disinformation Panic
This “unprecedented crisis for democracy” is neither unprecedented nor a crisis for democracy.
Department of Homeland Security
The DHS Will Be Disinformation Dolts
Plus: perpetual "scope creep" of the welfare state
New DHS Board Seeks To Counter What It Thinks Is Disinformation
The board's head says she is dedicated to "protecting free speech," but she has also expressed direct opposition to "free speech absolutists."
Experts Warn Accurate News Articles Are Misinformation if They Support Conservative Views
The existence of politically biased websites is not a crisis.
Americans Abandoning Free Speech Better Brace for the Consequences
Government will happily suppress misinformation in favor of misinformation of its own.
Are These Vulgarity-Spouting Birds a Threat to Democracy?
Aaron Reynolds is just trying to make people laugh, but his content may have been flagged on Instagram for interfering with the election.
Are These Effin' Birds From Canada Fucking With American Democracy?
Aaron Reynolds, the creator of "Swear Trek" and "Effin' Birds," talks about living and dying by Instagram's algorithms.
With Biden Up in Pennsylvania, Are We Headed Toward Gridlock?
Plus: Republicans denounce Trump fraud allegations, Trump campaign mounts multiple legal challenges, and more...
You Can't Always Trust What You Hear Online, and Congress Has Some Ideas About Fixing That
The House Intelligence Committee is mulling ways to stop an "infodemic." Is this really a task we want the government to tackle?
'Assault Weapons,' Explained
How a scary name for an arbitrary group of firearms distorts the gun control debate
Fake News: Finally Somebody Is Doing Something About It!
Vladimir Putin's Foreign Ministry
Glyphosate Found in Some Cereals: Alarmists Generate Useless Panic
Another bogus scaremongering study by anti-technology activists
How Trump's Big Lie Technique Works—"Belief Echoes" from Disinformation
Politicians have an enormous incentive to "strategically spread false information" otherwise known as "lie."