The key concern in any referendum or election now seems to be the dreaded spectre of ‘misinformation’. What will the misfortunate voters do, say the hand-wringers, when faced with false information they couldn’t possibly distinguish from the facts – and what can the authorities do to crackdown on this ever-present threat?
It’s a little odd then, that when a leading player in the upcoming March 8th vote makes a series of fundamentally untrue statements in a national newspaper, the great and the good who are ever-ready to lament fake news and disinformation are so strangely silent.