The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
No, it really isn't. Disinformation is spreading factually wrong information to push an agenda. Dissent is an opening position, with disagreement about factual matters with the eventual intent of reaching common ground after robust dissection of the facts to see which facts should be discarded and which facts have good support.<p>The disinformation factory serves one purpose only: to avoid people from reaching agreement, it is a wedge that is driven into society by an avalanche of garbage that drowns out any reasonable discussion.<p>By positioning the two as equivalent the author engages in disinformation under the guise of having a rational discussion, which is quite funny given the theme, and a pretty cynical display of the degree to which this is now something that you can get away with.