New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers, who covers “misinformation and disinformation” and is a social media censorship supporter and First Amendment non-fan, is back with a story posted on Thursday, relaying the sad news that the Trump administration is against self-styled invariably leftist misinformation “experts” – i.e. social media censors: “Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation.”
But who determines what counts as “misinformation”?
Conservatives can’t be blamed for fearing that the fight against misinformation and disinformation will quickly deform into censoring conservative commentary on issues already settled to their own political advantage by the left. They have a long record of doing so, including dozens of sorry examples from the Biden administration.
Trump’s move has given the…
