What is really going on in current mobilisation against disinformation? Whose interests are being served by “Big Disinfo”? Could it be that those forces portraying themselves as bulwarks against disinformation are actually the most insidious purveyors of disinformation? Does even the focus on disinformation conceal the real deceit? Do disinformation studies represent a regression in media studies? Does it matter that so many in this field are oblivious of developments in epistemology and philosophy of science? Why does fact-checking not address the real deceptions and delusions of mainstream news and current affairs? Why has debased positivism prevailed in disinformation studies and other social sciences? Why do postmodernist responses make everything worse? Does Marxism have anything to offer? Are European public service broadcasters (BBC, ARD, RAI, ERT, RTE), arguably the most trusted of mainstream media, really trustworthy? For example, can RTE be trusted in dealing with the war in Ukraine? What are the epistemological and ethical criteria involved is designating Trump and Putin as bad actors while assuming that Biden and Zelensky are good actors? Why are deeper socio-historical forces so absent from analysis? Are academics making any impact in addressing the real problems with the mainstream news agenda? Why has excavation of hidden ideologies become so unfashionable? Why are so many journalists stenographers of the surface? Why are so many academics puppets of the powerful?