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kane_magus) wrote2024-10-09 07:25 pm
kane_magus) wrote2024-10-09 07:25 pm
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"Republicans in Congress call out hurricane misinformation coming from within their own party"
Republicans calling out Trumpublicans in other words.
Also this is yet another case where I feel the need to emphasize the difference between "misinformation" and "disinformation."
All of this shit is starting out as deliberate disinformation.
Perpetual dumbass Marjorie Taylor Greene claiming people are controlling the weather? Disinformation. (Then again, I don't know... maybe MTG really is a big enough moron to actually believe that people can control the weather, in which case it would indeed be "misinformation," at least in the context of her saying it. *shrug* But whatever source she's getting her claims from is most certainly disinformation.)
Pathological liar Donald Trump saying FEMA money meant for hurricane victims is instead being used on immigrants? Disinformation.
Sure, all this dumbfuckery might be later spread as misinformation, by people who don't know any better and who aren't (just) doing so maliciously, but it's absolutely starting life as disinformation, which is absolutely being spread maliciously by those doing so.
At least Mitt Romney used the correct word, for what it's worth.
Also this is yet another case where I feel the need to emphasize the difference between "misinformation" and "disinformation."
All of this shit is starting out as deliberate disinformation.
Perpetual dumbass Marjorie Taylor Greene claiming people are controlling the weather? Disinformation. (Then again, I don't know... maybe MTG really is a big enough moron to actually believe that people can control the weather, in which case it would indeed be "misinformation," at least in the context of her saying it. *shrug* But whatever source she's getting her claims from is most certainly disinformation.)
Pathological liar Donald Trump saying FEMA money meant for hurricane victims is instead being used on immigrants? Disinformation.
Sure, all this dumbfuckery might be later spread as misinformation, by people who don't know any better and who aren't (just) doing so maliciously, but it's absolutely starting life as disinformation, which is absolutely being spread maliciously by those doing so.
At least Mitt Romney used the correct word, for what it's worth.