Disinformation

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Disinformation is false or distorted information that has been put together with the intent of leading recipients towards one or more predetermined beliefs. It is the main ingredient of propaganda.

Links

Reference

• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia (archive) "Another example of disinformation is the Climategate conspiracy, where results from weather satellites were doctored in order to support the theory of global warming."
• RationalWiki: no specific page as of 2020-08-11, though there are a lot of references to it
• Social Justice Wiki: no information as of 2020-08-11
• SourceWatch "deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government, intelligence agency, corporation or other entity for the purpose of influencing opinions or perceptions."

News

• 2023-09-27 02:00 UTC [L..T] Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive «Nearly three years ago, Facebook’s propaganda hunters uncovered a vast social media influence operation that used hundreds of fake accounts to praise the Indian army’s crackdown in the restive border region of Kashmir and accuse Kashmiri journalists of separatism and sedition. [..] What they found next was explosive: The network was operated by the Indian army’s Chinar Corps, a storied unit garrisoned in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley, the heart of Indian Kashmir and one of the most militarized regions in the world. [..] But when the U.S.-based supervisor of Facebook’s Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) unit told colleagues in India that the unit wanted to delete the network’s pages, executives in the New Delhi office pushed back.» ... «Those objections staved off action for a full year while the Indian army unit continued to spread disinformation that put Kashmiri journalists in danger. The deadlock was resolved only when top Facebook executives intervened and ordered the fake accounts deleted.»
• 2009-09-11 [L..T] Right-Wing Health Care Group Misled Canadian Interviewees Who Appeared In Anti-Reform Ads «CPR, an anti-health care reform group led by the disgraced former CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Rick Scott, [ran] a commercial attacking the Canadian health care system. ... CTV British Columbia is reporting that CPR misled several of the interviewees who appeared in their ads.»