There’s a phrase for what’s happening: “misinformation about misinformation.” It was coined by five academics led by Ceren Budak of the University of Michigan, in a paper in Nature in June 2024, to describe the gap between what public figures claim about online falsehood and what the evidence actually shows. That phrase could serve as the subtitle for what the Labour Government is now proposing in Britain. The Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, has published a Green Paper called Watch this Space that would force social media and video-sharing platforms, by law, to give priority to “regulated public service media” like…

There are moments in history that feel too big to be wrapped in anything but grief, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks was one of those moments. For a few days, Americans stopped scrolling and remembered the nearly three thousand people murdered by Al-Qaeda in New York, at the Pentagon, and in a Pennsylvania field. Politicians stood solemnly; cameras captured tears; families laid flowers. But according to Jonathan Tobin, editor-in-chief of JNS, the anniversary was not just a time of remembrance—it was also a revealing window into how the mainstream media, elite opinion, and politicians have spent…