• edric@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    It depends. You can expect some level of unintentional misinformation in the immediate aftermath of an incident because of the chaos, panic, and unreliable witnesseses. But that gets sorted out eventually when the smoke clears. That is different from deliberate malicious misinformation that the article is pertaining to.

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      23 days ago

      My example wasn’t purposely fake news, I was trying to show that we went off the rails releasing news without verifying sources at some point in the last 15 years.

      But genuine disinformation is as old as mankind.

      This comes to mind