misinformation

…and fake, addressing that the content is not real. The term came to be used for synthetic media in 2017 when a Reddit moderator created a subreddit called “r/deepfakes” and began posting videos that used face-swapping technology to insert celebrities’ likenesses into existing pornographic videos.

… is the unintentional dissemination of misleading or incorrect information, and disinformation is the deliberate spreading of lies for the express purpose of deception.

Misinformation is a general term used to describe false or factually inaccurate information. Disinformation is a type of misinformation that is intentionally created, usually to advance some kind of ideological goal. Falsehoods that spread widely often resonate in some way with people’s values and beliefs…