In this piece, Myers and coauthor Eileen Sullivan try to argue that Jankowicz was “targeted online by false or misleading info” but never cite a single piece of false or misleading information. Also, in discussing why her disinformation board failed, the reporters never once mention any of the disinformation that Jankowicz herself peddled or amplified.

My colleague Jerry Dunleavy has collected a catalog of Jankowicz’s embrace of disinformation that all happens to have the same partisan valence.

Jankowicz:

• Dismissed the material from Hunter Biden’s laptop as merely “a Trump campaign product.”
• Fed into Chinese state media propaganda by dismissing the lab-leak hypothesis out of hand.
• Promoted false claims about Trump-Russia collusion.
• Promoted debunked stories about Trump and a Russian bank.
• Promoted stories falsely accusing Justice Clarence Thomas of peddling “misinformation.”

It’s telling that a disinformation czar would be so gullible to falsehoods and disinformation and so willing to accuse the opposing party of disinformation falsely. What it tells us is that “disinformation” is basically just a partisan cudgel Democrats use to suppress facts or stories they do not like.

In that light, the opus of the New York Times’s misinformation reporter Myers makes more sense. He has never written a single article about Democrats spreading or benefiting from misinformation.

His most recent magazine article about “racist and violent ideas” online mentions “right-wing extremism,” “far-right populism,” and “right-wing sites,” but the word “Left” doesn’t appear a single time. I guess there are no “violent ideas” on the Left and that the assassination attempt of a Republican congressman or the Molotov cocktails leftist lawyers threw at police cars were simply spontaneous instances of left-wing violence.

Myers hooked his magazine piece on the Buffalo supermarket shooter, who had written the very not-right-wing falsehood, “There is no Green future with never ending population growth.” Whence this false idea, which inspired violence, that the planet is destined to be poisoned if people are allowed to have babies willy-nilly? Surely not from the internet or from the Left, if we are to believe Mr. Myers and the New York Times.

Myers’s recent piece about “voting disinformation” included an unsubstantiated and irrelevant attack on Georgia’s election law and leaned entirely on a report from “Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan organization.” As you can probably guess, “Protect Democracy” is an overwhelmingly Democratic organization.

The co-founder and executive director of Protect Democracy was associate White House counsel for President Barack Obama and president of the left-wing American Constitution Society, the co-founder and legal director was also associate counsel to Obama, the chief operating officer is a former Al Gore staffer, the director of operations served in the Obama White House, and so on.

NBC News, CNN, and the Washington Post all have their own misinformation reporters, and these folks are quick to throw false accusations at conservatives. None of them, as far as I can tell, has ever pointed out how Democrats use the term in an effort to strip their opponents of free speech protections.

Maybe, if the media’s and Democrats’ efforts to scare everyone about “disinformation” keeps failing, it’s because the Democrats and the media have repeatedly called true things disinformation because they happened to be helpful to Republicans.