The Crusade Against 'Malinformation' Explicitly Targets Inconvenient Truths

The Crusade Against 'Malinformation' Explicitly Targets Inconvenient Truths - JACOB SULLUM

• The legal challenge to censorship by proxy highlights covert government manipulation of online speech.

"Last month, I noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had repeatedly exaggerated the scientific evidence supporting face mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Facebook attached a warning to that column, which it said was "missing context" and "could mislead people."
According to an alliance of social media platforms, government-funded organizations, and federal officials that journalist Michael Shellenberger calls the "censorship-industrial complex," I had committed the offense of "malinformation." 

• Unlike "disinformation," which is intentionally misleading, or "misinformation," which is erroneous, "malinformation" is true but inconvenient...