SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC
Every so often, a government does something so palpably silly that it deserves everything it gets. A few weeks ago, the Conspirasphere erupted at the news that the US Government – specifically the Department of Homeland Security – was setting up a new body called the Disinformation Governance Board. The outrage and derision spread well beyond the boundaries of the C-sphere; in fact, commentators on all points of the political spectrum piled in.
The Orwellian resonance of the new board’s name meant that it was a matter of milliseconds before people started calling it the
