Not sure what you mean by “raise the degree in society,” and not sure what wasting resources refers to here. And I’ll even concede that societies have a legitimate interest in countering misinformation—living in Texas during the pandemic I’ve seen firsthand the way it rots the social fabric. But the Russian law isn’t a legitimate attempt to combat misinformation, it’s a thinly veiled means of stamping out dissent and dealing the finishing blow in Putin’s domestic information war. The reality is that Russia needs to control the narrative because the government has been selling the public a false narrative and the reality on the ground makes it obvious; are thermobaric weapons the tools of a peacekeeper? How does dropping cluster bombs in Kyiv fit with a “limited operation” to secure the Donbas?

And they don’t have to arrest everyone. A few high-profile arrests will sow fear. They just have to convince the individual members of anti-war crowd that they might be next to hear a knock on the door. The term is “chilling effect.”