Unmasking the Bias of “Misinformation Experts”

The struggle to control the internet as essentially the most powerful tool of our era, that can be used to highly effectively promote both economic and political interests via news, content, and communication, has given rise to a plethora of often contested and murky new practices, but also "industries."

"Fact-checkers" and "misinformation experts" are among those, and a Harvard Misinformation Review research paper revealed (albeit largely as an afterthought) that the integrity and authenticity, if you will, of their work is fundamentally flawed - due to these people's marked political bias.

Could it then be that the label "misinformation expert" should be treated as deceptive, i.e., that these efforts end up ushering in little else but more censorship? Perhaps making them - "censorship experts"?

But if ill intent is ruled out, there's always the possibility of ignorance. Some cite studies that show the insistence on there being dramatically more misinformation now than in previous times, and that this requires urgent action, stems from a misconception. In other words - there is now more communication than ever before between more people than ever before, but the actual level of false information proportional to those numbers remains the same.

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