Mere authoritarians in concerned sheep's clothing, trying to signal virtue while shrouded in horrendous evil.

From The Fake News about Fake News by Daniel Williams.  The subheading is In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

Williams argues that

it's misleading to conceptualise misinformation as a contagious virus, and why there isn't good evidence that people can be "inoculated" against it. 

As far as I am concerned, virtually all concerns about misinformation as a problem and the need of central authority to determine truth and control speech is demonstrably just a product of the authoritarian mind.  The philosophical underpinnings are weak and the evidentiary foundations are negligible - points made by Williams.

As with anything this dense and consequential, there is plenty to at least debate in the article.  Which is what in part makes it worthwhile.  But Williams seems sensibly in the free speech camp.

At a practical level, the arguments of those wanting misinformation are pretty easy to address.  Anyone concerned about misinformation and interested in propagating only approved knowledge at the expense of freedom of speech, does not belong in the marketplace of ideas and should be turfed out.  And mocked.  They are mere authoritarians in concerned sheep's clothing, trying to signal virtue while shrouded in horrendous evil.