NP but close

[Mark Kohut]

But dictionary definitions, from Miriam-Webster, the OED, or Germany's
definitive one also don't
carry much weight to folks who see thru their biases......

On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 3:19 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sure many are so far away from the USA they hate that they seldom
> listen to the ex-President, FOX NEWS,
> dozens of US Representatives and Senators; or Steve Bannon, or Roger Stone
> or even followed the Alex Jones
> trial in which his willfully misleading disinformation harming hundreds
> met its day in court.
>
> "Disinformation is false information deliberately spread to deceive
> people. It is sometimes confused with misinformation, which is false
> information but is not deliberate. Disinformation is presented in the form
> of fake news."
>
>
> Every day you post, lowers my estimation of you, as if you care.
>
> On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 2:53 PM Hübschräuber via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
>> - Disinformation is just a jargon word with a subliminal meaning, thrown
>> out by the mighty of the earth whenever they worry that they are about to
>> lose an argument—something that happens with painful regularity these days.
>> The word means, “Shut up, peasant.” It’s a bullet aimed at killing the
>> conversation. It’s loaded with hostility to reason, evidence, debate and
>> all the stuff that makes our democracy great. -
>>
>>
>> https://www.discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-society/2023/03/30/disinformation-is-the-word-i-use-when-i-want-you-to-shut-up/
>>
>> - In a technical or structural sense, the censorship regime’s aim is not
>> to censor or to oppress, but to rule. That’s why the authorities can never
>> be labeled as guilty of disinformation. Not when they lied about Hunter
>> Biden’s laptops, not when they claimed that the lab leak was a racist
>> conspiracy, not when they said that vaccines stopped transmission of the
>> novel coronavirus. Disinformation, now and for all time, is whatever they
>> say it is. That is not a sign that the concept is being misused or
>> corrupted; it is the precise functioning of a totalitarian system. -
>>
>>
>> https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation
>>
>> Sicher versendet mit [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/).
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>>
>