It wasn’t that long ago that Katherine Maher was complaining to The Atlantic Council that the First Amendment presented an unfortunate obstacle to the necessary task of shutting Americans up.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the “the number one challenge” in her fight against disinformation is “the First Amendment in the United States,” which makes it “a little bit tricky” to censor “bad information” and “the influence peddlers” who spread it.
NPR’s censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO
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Maher might be interpreted as lamenting the fact that the elites, who are always right, couldn’t ensure that Americans were spoon-fed only the best information available, but she can’t even resort to that claim. As CEO of Wikipedia, she argued that getting the facts right wasn’t really the point. Misleading…
