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tdfx | 3 years ago

Except no one has been able to come to any consensus on what "disinformation" is and isn't. For most, "disinformation" means "doesn't support my political narrative". Sure, there's extreme cases that are obvious, but the recent big tech censorship scandals have proven that no one has been able to draw the line correctly.

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ohiovr|3 years ago

Truth is not a product of consensus. Was it truth in 1491 that the earth was flat?

car_analogy|3 years ago

Tangential, but, at least in Europe, the Earth was widely believed to be spherical since ancient Greece, and Columbus relied on that, both for navigation and path-finding - traveling west on a flat Earth would not get him to India.

AnimalMuppet|3 years ago

Truth is not a product of consensus. It's not a product of a "fact checker", either.

horns4lyfe|3 years ago

Exactly, so what business does anyone have demanding we adhere to the consensus of what misinformation is?