I’m old-fashioned. To me, “misinformation” is better known as lies, twaddle, tall tales, yarns, and B.S. And the much-ballyhooed drive to contain it–well, that’s more mouth-farts.
For instance!
In 2014 Malaysian Flight 370 disappeared on its way from Kuala Lampur to Peking. A couple hundred passengers were never seen again.
Well, YouTube has an image (which I can’t reproduce here) of a virtually intact Malaysian 370 airliner peacefully sitting on the bottom of the ocean. Only two prombles with that. 1) They haven’t actually found that airplane, let alone taken pictures of it. 2) So the jet airplane crashes into the ocean at a damned fast clip… and doesn’t break in pieces? There shouldn’t been wreckage all over the surface of the ocean, which search planes would have eventually spotted. It does not wind up sitting in one peace on the ocean floor.
Nor does it land 35 years later with 92 skeletons on board!
(Yeah, that was another YouTube come-on. Sure are some funny things happening with jet airliners!)
All of this is lies, tall tales, piffle, and B.S. But you don’t see anybody trying to shut down those stories. Heck no! It’s only “misinformation” if it comes from Republicans and tends to hurt the Democrat scheme for devouring America. When was the last time you saw Democrat politicians and noozies accused of spreading “misinformation”? Well, okay, we accuse them all the time. But who on Capitol Hill listens to the plebs?.
Flight 370 went down somewhere. To say they’re about to fish it out of Lake Hopatcong, NJ, would be to disseminate misinformation. But you could certainly say it on YouTube and no one would ever suggest not allowing you to say it.
You just can’t say the 2020 election was crooked.