When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, Democrats suddenly discovered “disinformation.” They had shown zero interest in it previously. In a fateful choice, President Barack Obama in late 2015 shuttered the only office in the entire U.S. government that was dedicated to combating Russian disinformation, a move that has never been explained.
Democrats made up for lost time with obsessive enthusiasm. A whole new, lavishly funded industry arose to fight disinformation, as defined by Democrats. Nearly all these “experts” were making it up, and many had an obvious partisan agenda. The “disinformation” sector has a pronounced left-wing bias and functions as an adjunct to the Democratic Party. To someone like me, who has been debunking Kremlin disinformation professionally since the 1990s, this cynical exploitation of a real national security problem was disappointing but hardly unexpected.
