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These restrictions on speech seem well-intentioned but are of course another step in locking down the narrative.

  The government said the bill would not prohibit "misinformation" as long as those spreading it were unaware that what they were saying was false.

Laws like this one extinguish journalism (or what is left of it). Back in the day you could still counter the government narrative and claim Iraq didn't have WMD without legal repercussions (though it could get you killed [1]). With this, they'll arrest you on grounds of spreading harmful deboonked conspiracy theories. It's not hard to see that this is how it's going to play out.

With "misinformation" laws getting implemented amidst a wider trend of sanitizing the narrative, investigative journalism has now not merely fallen out of fashion, it has become illegal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)