"The NSA is secretly monitoring all communications on the internet"
That would have easily been labeled misinformation and disinformation 10 years ago.
That would have easily been labeled misinformation and disinformation 10 years ago.
If someone said "that's a lie", it would likely have been viewed as disinformation, but it would have been the truth.
But it's like people saying "MS is selling all your behaviour data" today, which is likely partially true, but not quite in that way. And when they take that extreme position without having something to back it up, it's hard to / not worth discussing.