Russia deplatforms everyone

How draconian new rules put misinformation in perspective

People fleeing war-torn Ukraine arrive on a train from Poland to Berlin on Sunday. (Carsten Koall / Getty Images)

On Friday, Russia’s parliament passed laws that set out to accomplish a task many democracies had previously considered, but mostly stopped short of implementing: criminalizing misinformation. Making it a crime to spread “fake news” about Vl…