Disinformation vs misinformation
As Dictionary.com explains: "Say, for example, you tell your uncle that you're headed on an adventure in a bat-heavy area. He tells you to wear a hat at all times, considering bats' penchant for getting tangled in people's hair. If your uncle actually believes that bats target
hair (they don't), he's spreading misinformation — it's untrue, sure, but he's not purposely trying to sow untruths. But maybe your uncle had a harrowing encounter with a bat colony as a kid. He's feared and hated them ever since, and he's keen on making everyone else fear and hate them, too. To further his mission, he's constantly presenting slanderous misconceptions about bats as facts. That's not just misinformation — it's disinformation, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as "the dissemination of deliberately false information, [especially] when supplied by a government or its agent to a foreign power or to the media, with the intention of influencing the policies or opinions of those who receive it". So your uncle maliciously mentions that bats love to claw at hair, you believe him, and then you tell everyone on your spelunking trip that bats love to claw at hair. As you're not sharing the fictitious tidbit out of any ill intent, it's back to being plain old misinformation."
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