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by meekmind
1554 days ago
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I think that intent matters. Misinformation is dissemination of information that may be misleading but wasn't necessarily intended to be misleading. Perhaps the author themselves lacked the pertinent data (or really believed what they were saying). That is distinct from disinformation, which would be intentionally deceptive. Regarding material omissions, it would only be misinformation if the person disseminating the information did so unknowingly. And hypothetically it would only take one person to inform the author of the material omission and naturally further publications with the same material omission then count as disinformation. I think the hair-splitting is due to the fact that majority of memes associated with one side or the other are not outright false, but are conditioning people to a particular pre-determined conclusion. In other words, if you're interested in battling mis/dis-information, you have to recognize the over-arching agenda and attack that, not rebut/censor every meme and thought internet randos and robots see fit to post. |
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But then you have to ask, why did conservative politicians and voters switch suddenly to not believing it after initially accepting it as a fact.
Tge obvious answer is that the fossil fuel interests paid then to lie. And so this 'market demand' was crested intentiobally by bad actors.
Russia is currently acting as a live demonstration of right-wing thought gone wrong, so if we apply this lens to that situation then apparently all the people on state media lying about stuff are just responding to a market demand from Russian people to justify their nation being the good guy. But wouldn't it be cheaper to fill that need by actually being the good guy?
So the propaganda is only needed when the populace want to believe one thing, but it's better for those in power to not do that, but deliver BS instead