All information isn't created equal. It doesn't actually matter if some people believe a photo of the Pope wearing a Balenciaga puffer jacket is real. When it

All information isn't created equal. It doesn't actually matter if some people believe a photo of the Pope wearing a Balenciaga puffer jacket is real. When it does matter, disinformation so far doesn't seem to work. It's very likely Russia is trying to disseminate fake news of all sorts about the war in Ukraine, but even the label it came up with ("special military operation") never caught up, except as a joke. A different but related problem is conspiracies. But most often they're not caused by people trusting sources they shouldn't, but by the opposite: people not trusting reliable sources. It was Cardinal de Retz, a French political schemer and memoirist, who said: "On est plus souvent dupé par la défiance que par la confiance" -- One is more often fooled by mistrust than by trust. Contrary to what the article seems to be saying (not sure about that, as it's far from clear), I would think excess of caution is more problematic that misplaced trust.