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You can't draw conclusions of any kind from false information; that's the problem with false information.

• hutzlibu 4y ago
  Of course you can, you now have valid information about the source of that false information - and can make hypothesis about the motives.
  • andrewflnr 4y ago
    Only if you're very lucky do you actually know any of these things. There's generally a very wide space of things that could have happened, and knowing that exactly one of them is wrong narrows things down very little. The space of motives for people to muddy the water is similarly wide, so you probably don't know anything new about the source.
    • hutzlibu 4y ago
      "Only if you're very lucky do you actually know any of these things." No, if someone is spreading false information, then this gives the solid information, that this source is tainted. And everything else is speculation, yes.
      • andrewflnr 4y ago
        You mean you know the outlet is unreliable, if they do it enough times. By "source" I assumed you meant the source of the story, about whom we still know nothing.
        • hutzlibu 4y ago
          I was refering literally to this statement. "You can't draw conclusions of any kind from false information; that's the problem with false information." My point simply being, that you get information from false information, regarding the source of the false information. Philosophical and apparently out of place.