I think a fight against misinformation is such a misguided attempt at fixing the actual problem, trust. There would be no reason to fight misinformation if you were simply trusted.<p>The truth is there is no corporation, government, or people you should trust other than the ones quite literally around you. There is no consistently verifiable way to know if anything is true outside your sphere of interactions without delegating trust. I don't think any corporation or government can make an argument in good faith they should be trusted implicitly.<p>In the real world if someone wrongs someone else there is a risk to their wellbeing. If someone does something truly heinous to another person there are paths of retribution both legal and illegal they may take. Regular people don't regularly walk around with secret service, however prominent wealthy government officials and executives of these organizations could. They would effectively been be immune to consequences regular people would suffer from. You can only mislead someone for so long until those people act unreasonable at the revelation that you haven't just lied to them once, but their entire relationship with you was a lie.<p>In a devolved world where truth and trust is nowhere to be found the only people you can personally hold accountable are those close to you, you can't always delegate accountability to some obscure organization (corp/gov) to fix your problems because you can't even trust that what was said to be done was even done.<p>There are too many sponsored articles, posts, bills, etc that makes it impossible to know if what is being said is because someone paid them to say it or not. How do we build actual trust between events and the telling of said events?<p>Trying to create an industry of fact checking and "ministry of truth"-like departments seems counter productive because it would be trivial to infiltrate any created organization and then become the opposite of the original goal.