Senator Elizabeth Warren released a plan to combat “disinformation” online. Critics said she was threatening free speech; defenders replied that she was only talking about criminal penalties for spreading false claims about polling places. At Reason, Robby Soave says that the defenders are right about her proposal — but not about her broader ambition. “[I]t’s perfectly clear that she does think the government has a role to play in suppressing disinformation broadly defined.”
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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