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Falsehoods, and falsely presented information, absolutely do exist. So do foreign campaigns to try to enhance discord in a target country, such as Russian attempts to do so [nbcnews.com] to help the Republicans and the Trump campaign, which they feel will be helpful to them against Ukraine [theguardian.com] (note how the likes of Marjorie Treason Greene and others we can trace badly laundered Russian funds to, [nytimes.com] have become staunchly anti-Ukraine).
U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential e
It was irrelevant information.

There is no such thing as misinformation or disinformation. Those are just labels used by those who would censor. The most horrible lie told by your worst enemy is still just information. Its very valuable to know what your enemy wants you to think.
Information that is false is literally the very definition of disinformation.

There is no such thing as misinformation or disinformation. Those are just labels used by those who would censor. The most horrible lie told by your worst enemy is still just information. Its very valuable to know what your enemy wants you to think.
Information that is false is literally the very definition of disinformation.
In the MAGA world they’re not called lies. They’re called alternative truths.
People don’t seem to realize the more subtle meaning of “alternative facts”. They aren’t just lies, they are facts carefully selected to be misleading. Half truths, statistics, lack of context, cherry picking.
Choose the ones you want for your preferred narrative, ignore the rest. Think you are smart and rational because you only care about facts and the hard truth.
Information that is false is literally the very definition of disinformation. – Well, sort of. Actual definitions do exist. [dictionary.com]
Misinformation is false information, that is spread with or without an intent to deceive. For instance, your local “crunchy mana” woo peddler trying to sell everyone anti-vaccination bullcrap or “home remedy” cures for various things that amount to snake oil, may actually believe the dumb shit spewing from her face hole because someone duped her or she’s just that fucking stupid. OR she may be a con artist herself, knowingly saying the stuff to try to get people to buy the fake crap she’s selling. Misinformation might also just be people simply mis-remembering something they heard or saw on the news.
Disinformation is false (or mostly false) information spread with a definitive intent to deceive, especially in regard to political matters or international matters. Disinformation can also include misleading information, such as “true” information deliberately distorted (such as the infamous republican-supplied “upside down” gun deaths graph [livescience.com] after the Florida “stand your ground” aka “white supremacist enablement” law passed) or “partly true” information that salts in falsehoods with factual information, in order to create a false impression for the recipient. For instance, “greenwashing” by corporate entities is a matter of disinformation. Likewise, republican attacks on a 10-year-old rape victim [thedailybeast.com] and on elections and election officials – amplified by Russian social media disinformation campaigns on behalf of the GOP [nytimes.com] – are disinformation.

There is no such thing as misinformation or disinformation.
I think it depends on your definition of those terms. Censors may use the terms but that doesn’t mean that everything labeled that way is censorship. All honey bees collect pollen, but not all pollen is collected by honey bees.

Its very valuable to know what your enemy wants you to think.
Can’t argue with that.
Now investigate downmod bot arrays in use here for well over a decade. Thanks!
Example? Because I’ve never seen one of those ads. I’ve seen plenty of crypto-scammer ads claiming the US Dollar is going to collapse, so “now is the time to put your money in crypto” or “in a stablecoin.”
And when I check Fox Noise to see what the gullible conservative retards and 80+ year old white-supremacist senile shits having WW2 flashbacks are being fed this week, they’re still peddling the “US is In Collapse! Buy Gold Mine Certificates and Shitty Tasting Survivalist Food Buckets!” ads.
This is an AI-generated photo [twitter.com] some people are stupid enough to believe is real. They’re apparently willing to ignore [mediaite.com] the grifter’s draft dodging escapades.
FWIW, it looked like a photo to me. It also looked like he was about a well-hung-over 60. So I don’t think it was related to his draft dodging.
You don’t have to agree with the political leanings of the New York Times. I don’t particularly care for the political leanings of the Wall Street Journal, but I’ll take both publications over just about anything that comes out of the dark corners of the Internet, social media, or cable “news”
They publish their journalistic [nytimes.com] standards [wsj.com] if you care to read them. Kinda doubt you do, it’s a lot more fun to just burn it all down, eh?
… early indications suggest that few social media users engaged with the most outlandish of the conspiracy theories.
Except for the users on Truth Social.
The fact that the news are outlandish conspiracy theories few people believed should not make us believe such propaganda campaigns are inefficient and without consequences. That might be a low noise test to see if the fake news go through. Later, at the time of election a more subtle and misleading campaign can flood our social medias.
They don’t need to sway everyone. Just sway a little bit the vote of the dumb ones. Of which we have many.
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