We’ve seen a lot of disinformation over the last three years shared by anti-science bad actors, usually with an agenda to disrupt and confuse.
Then there is misinformation, much more common and differing from disinformation with regard to intent.
Disinformation is intentional, think people like Tucker Carlson at Fox News or Ezra Levant closer to home, who are clearly spreading lies about environmental and social issues on purpose and with an ideological agenda.
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