"Something monstrous is taking shape in America," writes Jacob Siegel in his March 28 story for Tablet magazine entitled, "A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century: Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation."
Siegel says a worrying "synergy of state and corporate power" emerged in 2016 in service of crushing a so-called "disinformation" threat. The problem, says Siegel, is that the national security state, opportunistic politicians, and a compliant media have inflated this threat to serve their own purposes and in the process created a "digital leviathan" that threatens the liberties of all Americans.
