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Cailin O'Connor 'The war against truth and the social dynamics of alternative facts'

The New Abnormal

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Is There a Difference Between Disinformation and Misinformation?

M, m and E look at the complexity of online content. I think it's really fascinating in the piece that you wrote recently scientific an where you talk about, am, misinformation. A disinformation that is deliberately put out there to trick or to promote false views, is then picked up by people who may well belie what they're reading/viewing. The other thing i'm seeing a lot of, which i think is really interesting, is people creating content that isn't literal disinformation because it doesn't include statements of fact. But sometimes content could be really misleading. And othingis always for the point of view that society corrupted and therefore am to be a nonconformist was wonderful

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