Since the COVID pandemic, authoritarians in the U.S. and around the world have cynically used claims of “disinformation” to censor ordinary people and stifle dissent about everything from the efficacy of masks and vaccines to the war in Ukraine, the Middle East situation, and Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Whatever your political bent, this new form of speech control is a threat to you.
Only by debating freely in a rapidly fragmenting world can we resolve differences without resorting to violence.
To that end, a group of 136 academics, historians, and journalists from the left, right, and center of the political spectrum have come together to warn President Joe Biden that this rapidly growing censorship regime “undermines the foundational principles of representative democracy.”
In their “Westminster Declaration,” released Wednesday, the international group points out that the best way to combat actual disinformation is with free speech.
