I would encourage folks to carefully read the article and give a mind toward the word “police” in the headline. It can have a variety of meanings, some of which

I would encourage folks to carefully read the article and give a mind toward the word “police” in the headline. It can have a variety of meanings, some of which include powers like arrest and imprisonment… but some of which don’t. The U.S. government has long served as a clearinghouse for information, for example by funding the CVE list of vulnerabilities. There is a difference between flagging likely disinformation to publishers for their private option to act, vs sending federal agents to arrest private citizens for the content of their speech. A program to do the former is not necessarily a slippery slope to the latter; the First Amendment still exists. Put another way, there is a difference between the government acting as a participant in the conversation about disinformation, vs the government as the violent sole arbiter of what constitutes disinformation.