Corcoran: In The New York Times this week, various policy wonks were canvassed on the truth-and-lies issue, including Joan Donovan, the head of a Harvard media think-tank, who suggested Biden could set up a “truth commission.” Times’ writer Kevin Roose said he spoke to several experts who recommended a cross-agency U.S. task force to tackle disinformation led by something like a “reality czar.”
Variations on reality czarism are being proposed for Canada. A Trudeau Liberal MP and a Rutgers University think-tanker this week called for Ottawa to create a “new weapon” to fight “disinformation.” Funded by both government and “civil society,” a new agency — a Canadian ministry of truthiness — would “report to Parliament but remain independent in its decisions and be staffed by experts with both viewpoint and cultural diversity.” It would fight disinformation “by using the tools of science, and tracking it like a disease, reporting on it with clinical objectivity like the Public Health Agency of Canada.”
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