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Lying with the confidence of someone who did zero research and all the damage.

means False information spread deliberately to mislead, as opposed to misinformation, which is false information spread by mistake.

from Built from Latin 'dis-' (apart, reversal) plus 'information.' English picked up the word in the mid-20th century as a near-direct translation of Russian 'dezinformatsiya,' a term Soviet intelligence services coined for a deliberate disinformation bureau — the irony being that even the word for lying was itself borrowed, not invented, by the people using it most.

vs misinformation
deliberate, not an honest mistake
origin
soviet dezinformatsiya, weaponized in the 1950s
spread speed
outpaces fact-checks by design, not accident
goal
not belief, just confusion and doubt
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