i clearly remember the first time i heard anything about this. sain't obama complained about fake news the day the orange man ascended to the throne and obama was upset. free speech has nothing to do with what these dictators are demanding;

In New York City, world leaders dodged traffic, deranged panhandlers and the city's unique fall funk, to lecture the planet about their views at the United Nations General Assembly.

Their theme was the threat that "misinformation" or "disinformation" poses to their power.

"Hate speech, misinformation and abuse - targeted especially at women and vulnerable groups - are proliferating," UN Secretary-General António Guterres claimed.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed his country's PR problems on, "disinformation, crude staging, and provocations".

"Today I have listened to further instalments of Russia's catalogues of distortions, dishonesty, and disinformation," UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly retorted.

Catherine Colonna, minister for Europe, countered that, "Where Russia employs disinformation and propaganda, justice must be grounded in facts."

The one thing the Russians and Europeans can agree on is that the whole matter of the war can be reduced to "disinformation": bad speech that we would all be better off without. The only issue, as Vladimir Lenin put it, is "Who, whom". Who gets to censor whose speech?

No regime, no matter how debased, hesitated to rant about "disinformation" at the UN.

Nigeria's Islamist tyrant, President Muhammadu Buhari, argued that, "Nigeria has had many unsavoury experiences with hate speech and divisive disinformation" and urged "efforts to protect communities from the scourge of disinformation and misinformation."

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whose destructive Christchurch Call to Action had already been used to eliminate political dissent and suppress speech in a variety of countries, including the United States, had her own disinformation take..........more.........