- 19 Sep 2021 18:26
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strategic qestion : how I´d deal with them ?
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False information is often dubbed “misinformation” or “disinformation”, as if these terms mean the same thing. They do not. The former describes all false information, such as a covid-19 conspiracy theory unknowingly shared by your uncle. Disinformation, by contrast, is spread with the intent to mislead or manipulate others. Governments sometimes deploy it in the form of propaganda.
The tactic has been around in some form since ...... yet the word “disinformation” didn’t emerge until the 20th century. Fittingly, its exact origins are unclear. One theory is that Joseph Stalin first coined dezinformatsiya, a term he took from the name of a KGB propaganda department. The English word was...."
https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/03/ ... -condom-is
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False information is often dubbed “misinformation” or “disinformation”, as if these terms mean the same thing. They do not. The former describes all false information, such as a covid-19 conspiracy theory unknowingly shared by your uncle. Disinformation, by contrast, is spread with the intent to mislead or manipulate others. Governments sometimes deploy it in the form of propaganda.
The tactic has been around in some form since ...... yet the word “disinformation” didn’t emerge until the 20th century. Fittingly, its exact origins are unclear. One theory is that Joseph Stalin first coined dezinformatsiya, a term he took from the name of a KGB propaganda department. The English word was...."
https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/03/ ... -condom-is
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