I don't think the GP was speaking of "misinformation" as an alias for "mistruth", I read it as "disinformation", and that is an excellent method where true fact

I don't think the GP was speaking of "misinformation" as an alias for "mistruth", I read it as "disinformation", and that is an excellent method where true facts can cover over the larger reality. This is a case in point. Every minute we talk about liberal bias, people stop talking about other things. Arguably, policy on a pandemic that's killed 210,000 people is more important than whether a candidate's son used his last name as cache in a business deal.