Disinformation is the deliberate use of lies to manipulate people, whether to extract profit or to advance a political agenda. Its unwitting accomplice, misinformation, is spread by unknowing dupes who repeat lies they believe to be true. In America today, both forms of falsehood are distorting our perception of reality.

In a democracy, the people need a shared set of facts as a basis to debate and make decisions that advance and secure their collective interests. Differences of opinion, and even propaganda, have always existed in the United States, but now, enemies of democracy are using disinformation to attack our sovereign right to truthful information, intellectual integrity, and the exercise of the will of the people. Online disinformation is particularly insidious because of its immediacy, its capacity to deceive, and its ability to reach its target.

  • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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    8 months ago

    your syntax was ambiguous. it’s not my fault you didn’t construct it clearly. there is certainly a problem with literacy in this thread, though.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      your syntax was ambiguous

      Keep stretching for the fault to be on me and not your bsrelt-functioning brain, surely someone will believe it eventually.

      there is certainly a problem with literacy in this thread, though.

      Yeah, you and that other guy both seem completely incapable of basic English in about the same ways. Interesting, that is