On April 27, the Department of Homeland Security trumpeted the creation of a Disinformation Governance Board, which will supposedly battle disinformation.
But why should a government that lies constantly take on the task of deciding what information is true or false? As the Supreme Court noted in Thomas v. Collins, in the realm of political debate, “‘every person must be his own watchman for truth, because the forefathers did not trust any government to separate the truth from the false for us.’”
