Misinformation

incorrect information with or without an intention to deceive

Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information presented as fact, either intentionally or unintentionally. Disinformation is a subset of misinformation, that which is deliberately deceptive.

Quotes

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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear.
This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. ~ Buckminster Fuller
  • [the vaccine is] ungodly, or there's something in it that will mark you
There's a mixture of, like, almost fear, and saying, 'Hey, if you do this, maybe you're not as faithful as you should be as, say, a Christian.'
  • I think this [rigid thinking that treats history as a political weapon] is the greatest threat to our republic ever. Not the Depression, not World War II, not the Civil War. This is it … This moment of all these intersecting viruses, of novel coronaviruses and of racial injustice — [a] 402-year-old-virus. And it’s an age-old human virus of lying and misinformation and paranoia and conspiracy. This is the pill that will kill us unless we do something.
  • The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
    • Buckminster Fuller, in Cosmography : A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity (1992)
  • Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

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