Governor Watts of California (Daniel Watts)

Remember when President Nixon claimed the White House wasn't involved in the Watergate burglary?

Remember when President George W. Bush told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?

Remember when the government told us that cannabis is as dangerous as heroin and PCP?

Remember when President Obama told us that the NSA had not abused surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden?

The president should know that it's not Section 230 that protects social media companies from liability for false information. It's the First Amendment. The Constitution protects people — and social media companies — from government censorship campaigns.

Wait, so @aclu is using examples of government misinformation to show that we should back off of social media misinformation? Smells like what-about-ism to me. I’m all for liberty but who will stick up for truth?

The ACLU's point is that the government isn't always good at determining what the truth is. It's not what-aboutism, it's a very clear example of what can go wrong when we allow the government to declare what counts as "misinformation."

I don’t disagree. But it would appear that ACLU is suggesting we leave misinformation alone in order to combat censorship. On that point I would disagree. We need more accountability, not less, of both social media and of government itself.