From Orwell to Brussels: The EU’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Arrives | The American Spectator

In George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, there were four ministries of the government of Oceania: The Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty.
Washington, once a partner under the Biden administration in joint “disinformation” monitoring … has since distanced itself from the EU’s regulatory push.
The Ministry of Peace concerned itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions were neither accidental, nor were they the result of ordinary hypocrisy, they were deliberate exercises in doublethink — a language first explored in Orwell’s work but still employed today in politics and advertising that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Often using euphemisms to make unpleasant truths sound more palatable, its intent is to mislead or confuse the public about the true nature of a situation.
The Ministry of Truth was the ministry of propaganda. And as with the other ministries in the novel, the name “Ministry of Truth” is a deliberate misnomer — it serves the opposite. It is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events to show a government-approved version of events. However, like the other ministries, the name is also apt because it decides what constitutes truth in Oceania as well as seeing to its manufacture. I refer you to the COVID era and the loss of public trust.
The European Union is planning to launch a centralized facility for monitoring and countering what it calls foreign “disinformation,” according to a leaked document seen by Independent View UK. Critics have long warned that Brussels’ initiatives amount to the institutionalization of a censorship regime.
The European Union has been accused of creating Orwellian “ministries of truth” that will ensure “wrong thoughts” are not tolerated in a bid to “cleanse” disinformation from European public exposure.
It is expected that tho…