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Everything about Misinformation

Incorrect or misleading information

Misinformation is incorrect or misleading information. Whereas misinformation can exist with or without specific malicious intent, disinformation is deliberately deceptive and intentionally propagated. Misinformation is typically spread unintentionally, mostly caused by a lack of knowledge, an error, or simply a misunderstanding, which contrasts with disinformation. Misinformation can include inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or false information as well as selective or half-truths. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, X, etc., are designed in ways that enable information, including misinformation, to be posted and shared far more quickly than through other communication mediums. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: MisinformationA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a reviewInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Human Use of Human BeingsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Misinformation and Its CorrectionCited 2,524 times
  5. Go sideways: DisinformationA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Disinformation attackA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun Information that is incorrect, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Terminology
  2. History
  3. Research
  4. Countermeasures
  5. Online misinformation
  6. Impact
  7. Censorship accusations

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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