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Why label it disinformation? Even real information, presented in a "weaponized" way, can bring down power grids or entire governments. Limiting the discussion t
by wwwwwwwww 6y ago
Why label it disinformation? Even real information, presented in a "weaponized" way, can bring down power grids or entire governments. Limiting the discussion to just a certain kind of information, that we then prefix "dis", covers up the real problem. The real problem being that, while we very much value the open and free flow of information (free speech), that same freely flowing information can be weaponized and destructive. And SM has made it so much easier to weaponize information, both real and "dis".
- jpxw 6y agoBecause “disinformation” is a trendy buzzword at the moment
- sp332 6y agoI think you're describing misinformation. Disinformation makes people mistrust their news sources, so that any source of information might be as trustworthy as any other. That's why they would be susceptible to fake discount notifications like the ones described in the paper.
- Mirioron 6y ago>Disinformation makes people mistrust their news sources But the news sources themselves make you distrust them. I doubt that they are actively trying to make their readers mistrust them, but they seem to get that end result by simply engaging in politics.
- wwwwwwwww 6y ago> Disinformation makes people mistrust their news sources I began distrusting the media in my country when the most reputable (publicly financed) news shows increasingly contradicted their own reporting. One day they reported "a", because they could spin it in favor of their SJW agenda, and the next day the reported the complete opposite about the same topic for the same reason. Sometimes it even happened within the same show. So yes, you are correct, disinformation made me distrust my news sources. But it was the obvious disinformation spread by those very news sources.
- andai 6y agoMisinformation: falsehood Disinformation: weaponized falsehood Malinformation: weaponized truth
- jonplackett 6y agoNever heard of Malinformation before (even my spell check doesn't recognise it). Interesting concept. Kind of what Wikileaks is built on I guess.
- notassigned 6y agoYeah, or "black people are killed by police at a higher rate that white people" as a means to stir shit up.
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