The headline brings up this thought: I find the recent rise in the use of "missinformation" very Orwellian. The very authorities that have failed to keep our pe

The headline brings up this thought: I find the recent rise in the use of "missinformation" very Orwellian. The very authorities that have failed to keep our personal data safe from abuse by big tech, failed to keep lead out of our water, failed to stop giving banks our money when they fuck up, failed to properly keep the pandemic under control, and countless other massive failures of leadership, are to be trusted in managing the flow of information? I remember a few years back during one of the government shutdowns, a volunteer was mowing the lawn of the national mall because they couldn't pay the grounds keepers. I think our "authoritative sources", from the media, to the government have failed us at every level. I do not trust their definitions of "missinformation" to be anything but self serving.