With awareness comes disinformation, disinformation
is information that is false and deliberately created to harm a person, social
group, organization or country. Many people confuse disinformation with the
other term misinformation, which in some cases be in the same sense.
Misinformation is information that is false but not created with the intention
of causing harm. Throughout the media you are likely to stumble upon various
sources, articles, and blogs that incorporate a lot of misinformation
sometimes. Not because the author behind the blog wants to mislead you but
their own sources are not credible and likely false, so they just continue to
spread the misinformation to the public, often times creating a disturbance in
the public. With disinformation, you would see many journalists or publishes
intentionally trying to misinform the public purposely to stern panic. They
often do this because their higher ups tell them to, sometimes just to gain
more media attention towards that outlet. Developments in the last few years
have placed journalism under fire. A range of factors are transforming the
communications landscape, raising questions about the quality, impact and
credibility of journalism. At the same time, orchestrated campaigns are
spreading untruths, disinformation, mal-information and misinformation which
are often unwittingly shared on social media. Facebook has tracked this issue
and has tried several ways to keep information like this off of its platform. I
think this was the best thing to do considering how many people really engage
in Facebook, also the type of audience that falls into its category.
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