Twitter and Disinformation Wars – WSJ

Each day the world throws up a novel set of facts that beg to be understood on their own terms, and each day the press shoves them into a familiar formula.

It ought to be with some chagrin, though, that where we once expected the press to keep the government honest, we ve had to rely on civil servants like Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz and special counsel John Durham to do the job because, to put an indelicate point on it, the press has been part of the coverup. That coverup concerns perhaps the most important trend of our age the entry of U.S. spy agencies and their disinformation as a factor in our domestic politics.

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Holman Jenkins.