I would classify this (and much of the current discourse about mis/disinformation) as "not even wrong".<p>It's difficult for me to express my thoughts on the matter without writing a huge, unintelligible screed.<p>The author, like many others, considers misinformation a disease that can be cured by using authority to administer objective information.<p>I feel strongly that we no longer have any choice but to accept all information is based in trust. This is not meant to be a metaphysical statement. Perhaps at the metaphysical level, objective truth exists. Regardless, at the scale society needs to verify information, objectivity is inaccessible.<p>Consider how long it took Russel's <i>Principia</i> to add 1+1. For the claims we encounter in our everyday lives, an appeal to objectivity will only add another layer of obfuscation.<p>In the case of current crisis in the US, the government claims that the crisis is an attack by the Russians. Perhaps this is true on a superficial level, but the attack is only possible because sources of power in our society abuse that society's trust so heavily. This isn't only limited to the government, but the entire structure of power.<p>The Q conspiracy is on its face absurd and easily contradicted by reliable observations. Why do adherents engage in it? At some point when you're surrounded by lies on every side and no way to understand your environment, your brain just melts.<p>Unfortunately there is no sign that society will even stop digging itself into this hole.