Is There a Common Definition of Misinformation?

i don't think we need a shared definition of 'misinformation,' says John Avlon. The problem is that pompous assels who spend all their time at ivy league schools, going to government, are mangling the information and creating elaborate narratives. And if something gets out there and hits people's eyes and ears, then they create these elaborate narratives about how it happened. I mean, i'm very sympathetic to those people,. because, you now, we don't really know a lot, and people were kind of groping in the dark, and, you know, better to be cautious when the thing is moving that fast'