Today is the day I'm going to answer emails, return phone calls, and make appointments.
Narrator: Today is not that day.
L.R. Carver (It's in the Water) 🇨🇦📖
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![Misinformation: False information, accidentally spread, where the person spreading the false information is unaware of its falsehood.
Disinformation: False information, deliberately spread with intent to deceive.
Malinformation: Factual information, spread with malicious context meant to mislead or inflict harm. Hacked emails or photos, “revenge porn”, doxxing, phishing, are all examples of malinformation.
Propaganda: Can be true or false. It can contain elements of disinformation and malinformation. But its ultimate purpose is to influence and manipulate.
Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and author of Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Political Repression in Bahrain, prefers to use the term deception as a catchall to include elements of disinformation, malinformation and propaganda.
“I think [the term] ‘deception’ is important, because ‘deception’ carries the mode of delivery, as well as the content itself….Deception is more about the means of delivery, which can tell us a lot about the intent as well. If someone is spreading a message with a thousand fake accounts, their intention is not good. Or their intention is to do something that is not transparent.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ed63zp3ko7gvx6cfpxko45mo/bafkreiaq5w6og5zqvkyftmd47tk5aosanl6pz4bqt67pijlwubbtrg5d4m)
