Disinformation Isn't The Problem. Government Coverups And Censorship Are The Problem Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rurtherford Institute, “What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind.