🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/misleading-panic-over-misinformation
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/misleading-panic-over-misinformation
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How??
Here’s one from this week. Had a word count so it keeps the focus on response but: https://lawliberty.org/content-moderation-is-not-censorship/
Just more semantics to avoid reality..
https://bsky.app/profile/jpeter1son.bsky.social/post/3lsmm4uibgc2f
Just seems that at some point, we can stop giving organizations like Cato, and their employees, any benefit of the doubt.
We are talking about the Cato Institute. They’re known for being pompous morons.
I also really wonder how to spread this message, we are in desperate need of it being heard.
The first recommendation: Cancel all related research
The second: Make it illegal for representatives to support related research
A bias: so many free speech advocates are assholes that get joy from yelling people down
- Start with truth and distort it (malinfo)
- Repeat outright disinfo claims relentlessly
- Vilify alternative info sources
cheirinho de ancap, já não deviam esperar nada de bom dai mesmo
In 2025 The Cato Institute, which is funded by the Koch political machine, gave to award to Charles Koch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20organization's%20annual,%241%20million%20came%20from%20corporations.
They ARE pouring it out now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ut25sgOtcI
2 MASSIVELY WRONG statements, IN THE FIRST 2 bullet points!!!
Disinformation = false or misleading information spread deliberately to deceive or manipulate.
https://vivo.brown.edu/display/cwardle
Malinformation = true information used in misleading or harmful ways.