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0 pointsrajatrocks1y ago0 comments

misinformation = getting the facts wrong ex: The lawyer who cited nonexistent cases from ChatGPT in court

disinformation = intentionally misstating the facts in an effort to mislead ex: "January 6th was a day of peace and love"

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sharpshadow1y ago

Correct and as noted in the corresponding Wikipedia article “the term came into wider recognition during … early 2020s”[0] and was used against anybody who didn’t agree with the “official” information about the pandemic and vaccines. Today we know that fact checkers applied disinformation when they labelled sources as misinformation.

Fact checkers have been a tool to silence the voices they don’t like. People realised that quite quickly and if not today they know for sure.

Please don’t get me wrong fact checkers have been/are a tool to control the narrative and the nobility you may see in them was never really there.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation

rajatrocksOP1y ago

I'd amend that to say "Fact checkers *can* be a tool to silence the voices they don't like".

The tool I built enables people to check a statement against the knowledge of Google Search and then decide for themselves.

Is Google Search 100% accurate? No, it's based on information from people, and people lie, manipulate, fudge and deceive. Information changes, facts change.

But I believe that it's a better alternative than blindly accepting or rejecting everything that you read.

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