California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a webpage last month to fight misinformation and disinformation about the tragic wildfires in Los Angeles.

Irony is dead.
The self-appointed Disinformation Czar doesn’t seem to realize he is one of the leading sources of bad information.
The “California Fire Facts” page is hosted on Newsom’s campaign website, already calling into question the effort’s intent and veracity.
The site fact-checks what Newsom deemed the most important bits of misinformation, like whether the fires were started by satanic rituals, whether the Hollywood sign was ablaze, or whether the whole thing was a cover-up for a pedophile ring.
Thank God Newsom set the record straight!
The page solicits donations for a wildfire relief fund, but instead of redirecting to the charity itself, donors are made to contribute through Newsom’s Campaign for Democracy PAC on the Democratic-fundraising platform ActBlue, where he can collect their information.
Not a lie, but not what you’d expect from a page devoted to truth.
Newsom’s legacy of misinformation extends back at least to his time as San Francisco’s mayor at the turn of the century, though he reached the pinnacle of disinformation in November 2020 when he was caught at the French Laundry, a fancy, wine country restaurant, where he dined shoulder to shoulder and unmasked with lobbyists while the rest of the state was being told by Newsom that such actions were an affront to society. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom Plots Memoir to Recast Personal Scandals)
Not long after, Newsom was given a “mostly false” fact check by the Sacramento Bee for claiming he was “living through Zoom school” like the majority of California parents of K-12 students under his own shutdown order. His kids had actually been attending in-person classes for months.
This was actually a year or two after he earned the nickname “Gov. Gaslight” from the Sacramento Bee Editorial Board, a sentiment reiterated months later by the dean of the California press c...