> "Looks like it's time to go to war again" isn't a lie, it's an opinion. Eh. The Spanish-American war was started because of a likely false assumption. And po

> "Looks like it's time to go to war again" isn't a lie, it's an opinion. Eh. The Spanish-American war was started because of a likely false assumption. And posters which literally dehumanize the opponent are a form of lie. There was a time, I've read, when some Europeans literally believed Jews had horns. https://theisraelbible.com/do-jews-have-horns/ https://theisraelbible.com/do-jews-have-horns/ (Due to a mistranslation) "In Christian art of the Middle Ages, Moses is depicted wearing horns, most notably in Michelangelo’s statue created from the 16th century. This led to the persistent anti-Semitic belief that all Jews had horns and were in league with the devil." > And the case I think you need to make here is that people believing what at the time were intended to be "lies" have caused more damage than people believing things that were spread in the honest belief they were true I think you're nitpicking. Often enough the second person to spread a purposeful lie does so because they believe it to be true. A ton of manipulated media that people spread as fact is going to be media made for the fun of it, not as purposeful lies.