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misinformation

Abdullah Al Qamzi

Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com

May 09 2022

Misinformation is false or false information that is deliberately spread for the purpose of deception and its aim is to distract the mind or to provoke fear and in the long run the destruction of societies.

The term was coined by Joseph Stalin, the second president of the Soviet Union, in the early 1920s, with the aim of deceiving public opinion.

Today, a century later, we are still fighting against the misinformation spread through social media channels.

Misleading factors:

1- That the misleading information originated from a part of the truth.

2- The channel of disinformation should be popular and desirable.

3- A reliable and reliable media outlet must transmit misleading information from disinformation channels in order to increase the number of followers.

4- That the means of deception be reduced to one person who has followers.

5- To turn misinformation into a major belief/issue of faith (conspiracy theory).

If you follow the news bulletins regularly, you will never find a mention of conspiracy theories. If you follow conspiracy theories, you will find parts of the original news that you read on websites or watched on TV, and the rest is nonsense.

In other words, the news proves itself with an official statement bearing the consequences of his words, this is called credibility and the conspiracy theory never proves itself and this is called misinformation.

But when a conspiracy theory proves itself true, its name changes in the realm of real news and becomes a scandal while a conspiracy remains the same in the realm of disinformation.

Example

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation published a scientific paper in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology saying that the institute invented the Quantum Dots technology that allows documenting a person's vaccination by placing a tattoo that is not visible on his skin, and can only be monitored with certain devices and cannot be monitored from a distance.

The next day, Biohackinfo took the news and published it after adding a microchip implant in vaccinated humans.

Then a YouTube channel expanded into the fictional scenario, building on the idea that Gates wanted to monitor and track people.

The channel's video got two million views, compared to a very limited number of those who read the original scientific paper.

In April 2020, former US President Donald Trump's advisor, Roger Stone, adopted the YouTube channel script and stated it on a radio show, and this statement was republished by the New York Post.

Conservative Fox anchor Laura Ingram then took the statement and focused on Gates' intent to track people and made it the subject of her episode when she met with Federal Attorney General William Barr.

Attitude

1- We have all heard of the aforementioned conspiracy theory about Gates tracking people (the misinformation part), and I am almost certain that none of us would know how the story began if I did not mention it in this article.

2- The news was officially issued by two institutions with two similar statements, namely, the Gates Foundation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Factor 1), then it was moved by a false website and added to it, then a false channel took it and added it (Factor 2), then an official in the Trump administration (Factor 3) adopted it and when that happened It was covered by a well-known newspaper and the most watched news channel in America (Factor 4), and when the pandemic occurred, (Factor 5) was born as a corollary.

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