This reminds me of something else...
Some 100+ years ago, Woodrow Wilson, a racist and segregationist Democrat passed the Espionage Act in 1917, and the Sedition Act year later. The purpose of those two Acts were to protect our country from foreign spies, but in reality, Wilson find a better use for it, since it gave him power to ban dissent and shut up his critics. Under those Acts, he indicted more than 100 journalists, and other critics of his presidency. Just like hundred years later, another dictator... Obama used the same Acts to go after and prosecute journalist and whistleblowers more than all previous administrations combined. Remaining journalists all fall in line, and before he left the WH, he left them as a present, a law that allows them to use propaganda on American people.
The biggest misinformation source in the US is Federal Government and media who is working hand in hand with them to create the narrative that protect each other.