US leading global alliance to counter foreign government disinformation

theguardian.com

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"It's not that they're wicked or naturally bad

It's knowing they're foreign that makes them so mad!"

Flanders and Swann

Only American disinformation should be allowed on the Internet, after all.

"Cognitive hygiene" is an important public health issue. Wouldn't want people thinking differently than us.

> “In the end that is all I know we can do right now without interfering with a free press. We are not asking for such covert disinformation to be taken down but a way to be found for the source to be labelled.”

Their behavior has been so upright and honest in the past; surely we can trust them this time: https://twitterfiles.substack.com/p/new-knowledge-the-global...

lol the Twitter files. But none of these accounts were forced to be taken down, the groups just wanted Twitter to investigate them.

I'm trying to learn more about what disinformation is, could you please post your thoughts under the following Ask HN post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39554369

Oh, I see you already posted yesterday, great, thank you!

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