Progressive Politics

I really don't understand what is so hard to understand.

So then who decides what is and isn’t disinformation?

People who take part in collective action against the false information?

I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve seen governments claim that people were spreading disinformation, only for it to come out years later that the people pushing against propaganda were not wrong at all. Does Iraq’s WMD’s ring a bell?

...so you are saying that if a bunch of upset people around the world collectively organized the dismantling of the Iraq WMD propaganda, that would be... worse somehow?

Calling for a global censorship authority is by far worse.

Collective action is not a global authority any more than a union is a labor authority. I do not see this as a call for a UN Information Authority. I see this as a call for people, like you and me, to organize and coordinate effective campaigns against disinformation and misinformation. Normal people, or maybe people educated on the topic, acting collectively. Collective action. Like workers organizing a general strike, or activists organizing protests, but instead of not working or protesting in the streets the participants are coming up with and disseminating organized facts on the internet and anywhere else it might be deemed effective.

Can you source any explicit mentions of government being recommended to handle this responsibility in the article or are you just reading it that way?