Let's review what a fact is, what a Top Secret-classified source might be, what a Secret-classified intelligence report is, what misinformation is, and what disinformation is.
Your car is parked at home. It's location is a fact. You put it there. You may even see it out your windows, it is indisputably true, it is there, it is a fact, there is no tricks, no smoke or mirrors. It's just a #fact.
There is an American spy satellite (ha, many) circling the globe, it's capabilities are Top Secret, and the imagery it takes is Top Secret.
Using imagery from that satellite, a gov't analyst writes a Secret report that states your car is in your driveway, per Top Secret intel.
Using imagery from that satellite, a gov't analyst writes a Secret report that states your car is in your driveway, per Top Secret intel.
Your car's location is not Secret or Top Secret to anyone but consumers of that intelligence report, or satellite imagery. If I see your car, and I tell someone your car's location, I am not discussing Secret or Top Secret information, it's just a fact.
If someone overheard me, and mistakenly thought I said you left your car "down home", they might get the impression you had taken a trip somewhere, and left your carelaewhwre. It's an honest mistake, a whoopsie. That's #misinformation.
If someone knew your car was in the driveway, and they made up a story citing that misheard information, to portray you as breaking quarantine so you'd get harassed by the cops or fired from your job, that's #disinformation; aka deliberate misinformation. It's an intentional lie.
There are a lot of people who are active in the media who intentionally lie all the time, and for some reason are routinely forgiven for lying, and we let them spin another lie tomorrow.
What happened to credibility? Why do we let them get away with this?
What happened to credibility? Why do we let them get away with this?
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