Irish politicians have developed a habit in recent years of invoking “misinformation” and “disinformation” as if they were the greatest dangers facing the State.
Barely a week goes by without some TD or Senator solemnly warning that our democracy itself is under threat from these shadowy forces, as though misleading posts on social media posed the same level of risk as economic collapse or a terrorist attack.
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