Q mentions that not only is the disinformation real. But it is necessary. Is Covid (just sticking with covid for now, all just disinformation? From the vaccine to the lockdowns to all of it?
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when one would ponder the origins of the word: inform and it's derivative misinform
one would be forgiven to think, without such knowledge, misinformation is a thing that is simply come about by accidental and erroneous transmission of data, though carried by good intention,
Yet, we are talking about forming, programming, shaping, instructing. In it's essence, in the current situation, it does misform people, in the sense it warps their thinking, their emotion, and divorces people from their logical thinking ability.
While this darkness of stupidity grows and continues, it also provides the opportunity to grow the light, and for every deformed dataset the DS comes up with,
Be it bullshit articles about dangers of unsubstantiated variants, strict controls on the internal EU borders, stories about unvaxxt who profess their errors, people get trained better to spot the bullshit and escape it.
So, yes, to a degree, misinformation is absolutely necessary, in order to fortify both logical thinking and resolve to stand our ground.