Notes
In January, the World Economic Forum released a report showing that fourteen hundred and ninety international experts rated “misinformation and disinformation” the leading global risk of the next two years, surpassing war, migration, and climatic catastrophe.
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Saying that “misinformation” is a global risk is like saying that “mistakes” or “dishonesty” or “immorality” are global risks. They presume that these words have some objective meaning.
Information that is intended to deceive people might be considered ‘misinformation’ but this is not what the experts mean (they don’t even claim that it is).
The working definition of ‘misinformation’ is ‘any fact or opinion which contradicts or calls into question our narratives: immigration to the West is always good and never bad, carbon emissions are always bad and never good, the values of federal agencies and urban academics trump the values of rural or skeptical or religious or family-oriented people, all of these values are self-evidently good and should be inculcated in children at the earliest possible age, anyone who questions them is right-wing or conspiratorial and automatically invalid, etc.’.