Information filtering is pretty standard in wartime (and other states of emergency). It's justified because misinformation kills, and the wartime laws allow for

Information filtering is pretty standard in wartime (and other states of emergency). It's justified because misinformation kills, and the wartime laws allow for some limited suspension of civil rights to protect national integrity. People seem to forget, sometimes, that from a legal standpoint the US government can, for example, still draft individual citizens; there's lots of individual liberties (including the right to not be put in danger of life) that get suspended in wartime. And, of course, this is definitely an avenue for bad actors to take advantage of information asymmetry to mislead the public. US history has multiple examples of this occurring. They tend to be exceptions, but they are worth knowing.