On Rising Sea Level and Misinformation

To President Biden’s chagrin and his effort to create a Disinformation Governance Board there is a difference between “misinformation” and “disinformation,”

‘Simply put,’ writes Isaac Saul in a Persuasion, “misinformation is ‘incorrect or misleading information’. This is slightly different from “disinformation,”which is ‘false information deliberately and often covertly spread (by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.’ The notable difference is that disinformation is always deliberate.”

We’ve covered Trump getting deplatformed ad nauseam. We’ve been following Elon Musk’s comments about “free speech” and his now aborted attempt to acquire Twitter and take it private. We’ve joked with Jeffrey Tucker in our Wiggin Session discussing the Deep State would be enough to get us kicked off social media.

Why bring all this up? This week’s guest is John Englander. As you will see…