"Disinformation"

Not to be confused with "misinformation".

"Disinformation"  (propaganda)
Interest of	• Committee for the Free World • DisinfoPortal • Naz Durakoğlu • First Draft • Ryan Gawn • Thomas Anthony Dooley III • Mark Little (Journalist) • Marianna Spring • Trusted News Initiative • Susan Wojcicki

“The weirdest thing about the Biden administration tasking itself with the censorship of “disinformation” on social media is that the United States is the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is built upon a foundation of disinformation, maintained by disinformation, and facilitated by disinformation.”
Caitlin Johnstone (July 2021) 

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"Countering disinformation"	“the counter-disinformation space as a whole [in Georgia] is slightly less evolved than in other regions, still being largely though not exclusively focused on fact-checking, which might be termed counter-disinformation 1.0.”		June 2018
"Countering disinformation"	“Another barrier to combating disinformation is the fact that certain Kremlin-backed narratives are factually true. For example, the Serbian organisation European Western Balkans noted that one of the country's most prominent pro-Kremlin narratives relates to Russia's ongoing support for Belgrade in the Kosovo dispute which is true. Responding to inconvenient truths, as opposed to pure propaganda, is naturally more problematic.”		June 2018
George Carlin	“Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?”	George Carlin
William Casey	“We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false”	William Casey	February 1981
Georgia	“Conspiracy theories are also widespread. For example, a prominent narrative has been that the Lugar Center, a biological research laboratory in Tbilisi built with US assistance, is developing viruses to destroy Georgian genes.”		June 2018
Ralph McGehee	“The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting "intelligence" justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapon capability, to support presidential policy. Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target audience of its lies.”	Ralph McGehee	1983
Claire Sterling	“The Judith Miller-like journalist in those days who spun the story about Agca's Soviet Bloc connections was Claire Sterling, whose disinformation was quickly picked up by The Reader's Digest, New York Times, NBC News, and other mainstream media outlets.”	Claire Sterling Wayne Madsen	28 May 2007
The Last American Vagabond	“They don't call it misinformation unless you are able to scientifically reference it.”	The Last American Vagabond	2021

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination	article	2017	Garrick Alder
Document:I get abuse and threats online - why can't it be stopped?	Article	18 October 2021	Marianna Spring	The Disinformation Specialist at the BBC gets criticism online for her "fact checking". Internet censorship is the answer.
New Climate Reality, New Media	Article	10 August 2021	Mike Small	Call out the worst of columnists and publications spouting writing that is clearly against the common good and against humanity’s future. A weekly prize for the worst culprits. Naming and shaming disinformation and sponsored propaganda.

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