silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoMisinformation Is Turning American Disasters Into Toxic Battlegrounds | Rumors and conspiracy theories interfered with recovery efforts in North Carolina. It wasn’t a one-off, experts say.www.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down13
arrow-up1163arrow-down1external-linkMisinformation Is Turning American Disasters Into Toxic Battlegrounds | Rumors and conspiracy theories interfered with recovery efforts in North Carolina. It wasn’t a one-off, experts say.www.bloomberg.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·21 days agoMy 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
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