Just a minor “Language Watch” notion.
Lately it has become a manufactured trend to talk of DIS-information and MIS-information (but only on rare occasion mal-information). IMHO this is yet another attempt at language manipulation. Why?
I suspect the purpose is to make it all seem like a new and trendy “insight”; and perhaps to avoid folks critical thinking by obscuring the simplicity of what the thing really is. To make it harder to criticize the assertion by setting aside your prior learned behaviours for the original word.
So, for example, if I say “That’s a lie!” you will have learned responses to “a lie” that help you to decide if it is a lie, or not; ought it be accepted or instead have data gathered?
So it got me wondering about the simple and original word, vs the new and trendy one.
Misinformation: This is more properly simply called “wrong”…
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