Misinformation
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| Type | idea |
| Interest of | • Nighat Arif • Center for Countering Digital Hate • Dangerous Speech Project • Naz Durakoğlu • Fazze • First Draft • Bill Gates • Ziad Ramley • Matthew Remski • Stop Funding Hate |
Misinformation is false, inaccurate, or misleading information that is communicated regardless of an intention to deceive. Examples of misinformation are:
- false rumors
- insults
- pranks
It has become a propaganda term to label information or viewpoints that contradict the official narrative on any given topic.[1]
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Gunner | “The BS that’s flying around on the internet about the territory is coming from flogs outside the territory – mostly America, Canada and the UK,” Mr Gunner told a media conference on Thursday. People who have nothing better to do than make up lies about us because their own lives are so small and so sad. If anybody thinks we’re going to be distracted by tin foil hat-wearing tossers sitting in their parents’ basement in Florida – then you do not know us Territorians” | Michael Gunner | 25 November 2021 |
| Joy Reid | “Essentially, she made public her own vaccine deliberation, which according to trusted friends is a better way to describe vaccine hesitancy, which by the way is not the same thing as refusal. By doing, Nicki also used her social media platform and her 22 million Twitter followers to cast doubt on the vaccine to a heavily Black audience” | Joy Reid | 14 September 2021 |
| The Last American Vagabond | “They don't call it misinformation unless you are able to scientifically reference it.” | The Last American Vagabond | 2021 |
| Henry Windsor | “In today’s world, we are so connected like a vast nervous system, whether we are online or not. And much like the virus, there are no borders online. So when vaccine misinformation and disinformation spreads, magnified on social media and in parts of traditional media, it exposes a collective threat to humanity. I believe that misinformation is a global humanitarian crisis, and the crisis is getting worse.” | Henry Windsor |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Pro-Kremlin trolls infiltrating comments on news sites for major influence operation, research says | Article | 6 September 2021 | Deborah Haynes | A study at Cardiff University shows that "Pro-Kremlin trolls" are influencing opinion in the West by infiltrating the comments sections of news websites. Dissent from the Official Narrative? Must be Russian disinformation. |
| Document:Why some people are spreading false rumours about the Texas gunman | Article | 9 May 2023 | Shayan Sardarizadeh Mike Wendling | The BBC factchecks the recent 2023 Allen, Texas outlet mall shooting regarding the alleged Nazism of the Hispanic shooter |
| Document:Women's March petitions Jack Dorsey to ban Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Twitter | Article | 14 August 2021 | Libby Emmons | The leading American feminist organisation is pressuring Twitter to remove Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from their platform. She stands accused of promoting "conspiracy theories" about COVID over her scepticism of Fauci. She has been censored before. How much longer is there before she is permanently banned? |
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