Tom Corbett - once a Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, for the last four years one of the anti-disinformation firebrands - gave an interview on US election day, revealing his thoughts on "dis/misinformation," and what to do about it.
Corbett left his government job in 2015 and now works for Keep Our Republic - a non profit that focuses on the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. (Corbett may or may not have been disappointed, but President Trump ended up winning in all three).
Keep Our Republic consists of former officials from both Republican and Democratic parties, but its specific interest in the three states, along the language it uses to describe its purpose - countering "the threats facing our elections," and declaring, "we are most tightly focused on election integrity" - is pretty telling.
Corbett reinforced this impression with his statements about "dangerous online disinformation" since 2020, along with the obligatory mention of "foreign governments trying to divide the country" - where plurality of political opinion and choices is once again treated as something negative, "a polarization," instead of what it really is - a democracy.
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