Strypey<p>I confidently passed this non-fact on to a bunch of other people before I thought to fact-check it. At least some of them probably assumed I knew what I was talking about, and passed it on to others.</p><p>This is how viral misinformation spreads. Along relationships of trust and credibility, that tunnel under critical thinking. People spreading disinformation hack those channels to spread their intentionally-generated non-facts.</p><p>(2/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ViralMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ViralMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MediaVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MediaVirus</span></a></p>