This all goes to prove that “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “mal-information” don’t mean what the corporate press, establishment politicians, and career bureaucrats pretend they mean: The push to pressure Big Tech and the corporate press to censor so-called misinformation is not about protecting the public from falsehoods — not that that should be the government or the platforms’ job anyway.

It is also not about ensuring the accuracy and truthfulness of reporting. Tuesday’s peddling by the newspaper of record proves that — as does the censorship of truthful and accurate information on social media under the guise of combatting misinformation, whether it be the Hunter Biden laptop story, Covid reporting, or coverage of election-integrity issues.

Rather, those demanding that more be done to combat so-called mis-, dis-, and mal-information seek to silence the speech that conflicts with their worldview — and the people who speak it. Truth be damned.