SaintsInDome2006
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Disinformation is an intelligence term of art. Misinformation means basically you're misinformed or you're misinforming others. Some misinformation is used in disinformation but not all is, but all disinformation almost always requires misinformation to operate.I don't really believe these are very different. They cherry pick facts specifically to get an emotional reaction or because they know that nobody will read the entire story they linked to.
ETA: and sometimes those facts arent even really facts
If you say to me, "Hey Sid, that claim you keep repeating is totally wrong, where did you get that? And btw you need to stop because it's not accurate.' That's one thing. - If you say to me 'Hey Sid, this was started by agents for the Kremlin' then that's a claim about disinformation. It's not just misinformation it's an actual campaign with manufactured facts with a political purpose. It's like saying guns are used in assault and terrorism so there isn't really much difference between the two. It's more or less an active measure. Unfortunately this is not something that by and large the US ever used to have to worry about, and especially not coming from the US government or state or associated actors within it.
And I think that's part of the reason things are so sharp these days. This isn't just 'the president had nothing to do with this, he's not a crook' or 'Hey pal a BJ is not an impeachable offense', people feel like media and informational actors arer purposefully acting to harm society and our democracy. We can argue whether it's that serious but I think that's the reason for the vituperation.
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