You don't have to lie to disinform or propagandize. In fact it works a lot better if you don't. What you do is selectively reveal only certain truths at select

You don't have to lie to disinform or propagandize. In fact it works a lot better if you don't. What you do is selectively reveal only certain truths at select times and in a select order. Deliberately redacted and spun truths can effectively work as lies. In this case the way it works is that Wikileaks drops select truths in a select order and then other more transparently bad faith actors in the "alternative media" use what Wikileaks drops as the kernels of lies and wild-ass conspiracy theories. All this happens long before good faith actors can manage to even start digesting the information. I have not seen proof of collusion in this process, but in 2016 it was so well executed that I would not be surprised. I watched all that stuff unfold in real time and it was obviously a propaganda operation... and a really damn slick one. I was kind of impressed. Edit: here's a somewhat clunky made up example to illustrate the principle: Lets say you are driving and you accidentally hit and kill a pedestrian who happens to be an ex business partner. Lets say you and this ex business partner had a falling out, but later made up and came to an amicable agreement. Lets say I leak e-mails showing the disagreement and falling out, but sort of "forget" to leak the make-up and later agreement. I also leak only the most damning e-mails from your side, redacting e-mails from the other side that might cast our accident victim in a bad light. I can make you look like a murderer when in reality the event was just an accident. I have done nothing but tell the truth.