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You may be well right here, but it seems like there is significant difference what everyone is considering as "actual proof", hence definition of what is misinf
by jesterson 5y ago
You may be well right here, but it seems like there is significant difference what everyone is considering as "actual proof", hence definition of what is misinformation and what's not becomes very vague.
- jacquesm 5y agoOk, I'll take a stab at this then: 'misinformation is the spreading of information that is known to be false'. That doesn't assign any kind of state-of-mind to the person doing it, it could be because they're useful idiots, griefers, state operators and so on. Of course that kicks the can down the road: what exactly is known to be false and what is not? But we have a pretty good idea in the case of the flat earth and I think that other cases will lend themselves to such analysis. Holocaust denial is a nice example, Hillary Clinton running a pedophile network from a pizza joint is another. 5G phone network used for mind control and so on. All of these share the trait that reasonable people would - I assume, true - agree that these things are not true and that those that spread this do not have our best interests at heart, either through stupidity or malice.