Jacob Siegel on Disinformation, the ‘Hoax of the Century’ — Part 1

Mr. Siegel discusses disinformation and the ‘whole of society’ approach the State Department took to combat President Donald Trump’s emergence.

Jacob Siegel, a senior editor at Tablet magazine, in Washington on Aug. 21, 2023. Alejandro Heredia/The Epoch Times

The hoax of the century is that there exists a great threat of disinformation that is “so grave that it justifies a state of emergency in which unelected regulators and national security officials can violate the Constitution to protect individual American citizens,” according to a magazine editor.

Jacob Siegel, a senior editor at Tablet magazine, published “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century: Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation,” which documents these developments.