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Those talk that about "disinformation" do so to assume some moral high-ground. The reasonable ones assume all the information out there is hostile and seeks to influence them. Because that's precisely how human interaction works. It's for the individual to discern the quality of information.

The patronizing attitude towards philosophy of epistemology is truly baffling. As if one is able to make such vast statements.

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Yeah, that's nonsense, the moralizing is entirley yours. Some information is obviously from a single source with an obvious agenda devoid of normal logic that ignores all evidence. I give the characteristics that identify it.

Of course some people will evaluate all information with critical thinking but they are not the majority, and most can be influenced merely by repetition or the illusion of consensus or something near it.

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