America’s media elites have been guilty of plenty of shocking ethical lapses in recent years. There was the Hunter Biden-laptop scandal in 2020, when liberal media wilfully ignored and flat-out censored a story that harmed Joe Biden, the presidential candidate they supported. There was their wilful refusal to cover the Covid lab-leak theory during the first couple of years of the pandemic.

As the Biden administration draws to a close, one of its final acts has been to propose an overdesigned, yet underinformed, Interim Final Rule (IFR) for a new “Export Control Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Diffusion.”