MATT TAIBBI: FOIA Exclusive: Did Pharma Companies Help Plan “Virality Project” Censorship Program? “This was the first concrete description we’d seen yet of “malinformation,” which the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defined as information “based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.” In practice the definition would prove simpler: true, but inconvenient.”
Plus: “Government clearly has no legitimate interest in preventing people from building political coalitions just because those threaten to be effective. There’s also no legitimate reason a government-partnered/government-funded organization should be thinking at all about suppressing arguments against ‘government overreach.'”
