I'm not a fan of pasta but I'm at work and don't want to type it all out again:

Not necessarily. [D]ec 5 D5 is a good example of "disinfo is necessary" since it made the DS change their plans since they could choose to let that guy testify and expose them or they could (what Q actually wanted them to do) bring 41 off the ice and into a casket which lead to the infamous letters they got.

Q made those posts about the moon landing being real and the Earth not being flat to keep us from becoming distracted. It's not like it keeps the media from smearing us as flat earthers (they actually say we are worse, probably because they can't control us like FE). If he actually wanted us to dig into moon landing and FE and the media would smear him anyways, why not ignore the question and let us do the digging? Why not just try to say it.

If you think it is because it might be too Earth shattering for us, remember Q 749 where he starts to suggest an almost Matrix like reality:

Coincidence the Matrix (movie) grew people as a crop, used for energy, and controlled their mind? Sound familiar? Wonder where they derived that idea from. Now comes the 'conspiracy' label. Deeper we go, the more unrealistic it all becomes. The end won't be for everyone. That choice, to know, will be yours. Q

So if you are hoping for some deeper meaning to reality as we know it, there's that.

Also, no it is not "exactly where it applies" unless you think everything Q says is disinfo. What about these specifically mean that it must apply to them, the fact that you believe it is true?