Ever since the revelations about concerted disinformation campaigns ahead of and surrounding the Brexit referendum and the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but also in the context of troubling developments in the global information space since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the issue has become a hot topic in international legal scholarship. However, after a few years of debate, there remain some fundamental concerns with how state-led influence operations are addressed, both in academia and among state actors. With that in mind, the following brief remarks seek to make five claims that may challenge and clarify some of the key features of current legal discourse.