The knowledge industry: how to deal with disinformation and cancel culture

This article is predicated on the view that without a clear idea of exactly how our knowledge-making procedures work, it is difficult to arrive at a full understanding of disinformation and cancel culture, and it advances the view that Jonathan Rauch’s recent The Constitution of Knowledge provides us with an indispensable account of how those epistemic procedures function. Having acquired a sound understanding of how the knowledge industry works, cancel culture and disinformation emerge as rogue interventions in the