Both political parties have taken "misinformation" to mean "information they don't like", which complicates things.
There are very different levels of misinfo:
- Democrats think Trump is a Nazi/Russian collaborator
- People who think Earth is flat
- People who think Covid-19 is a globalist conspiracy from Bill Gates - so he can inject us with microchip vaccines
- People who think Brexit is an amazing/terrible idea
- People who think QAnon is a real issue
- etc...
It's simply too broad a brush to call it "disinfo", and those who claim to combat disinfo should be looked at with heavy skepticism for this reason. It will get abused for political ends.
There are very different levels of misinfo:
- Democrats think Trump is a Nazi/Russian collaborator
- People who think Earth is flat
- People who think Covid-19 is a globalist conspiracy from Bill Gates - so he can inject us with microchip vaccines
- People who think Brexit is an amazing/terrible idea
- People who think QAnon is a real issue
- etc...
It's simply too broad a brush to call it "disinfo", and those who claim to combat disinfo should be looked at with heavy skepticism for this reason. It will get abused for political ends.