Commentary When I first heard that someone was calling for the Biden administration to establish a “reality czar” to weed out “misinformation,” I thought it must have appeared in our paper of record. I mean, of course, The Babylon Bee, the place where satire meets and then overtakes reality. I looked, but it wasn’t there. It appeared, wouldn’t you know it, in our former paper of record, The New York Times. “Experts,” you see, are worried about “conspiracy theories” and “disinformation” about such things as the 2020 presidential election and the best way to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Really. It’s a “public safety” and “public health” issue, you see, and since it turns out that “the same people and groups are responsible for spreading both types [of supposed misinformation]” we need “a centralized task force” to “coordinate a single, strategic response” “Several experts I spoke with,” wrote the author …
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