The situation becomes even worse as people tie themselves into knots deciding whether something is fake news or misinformation or disinformation or malinformation or conspiracy theory or trolling. “Disinformation” is sufficient to capture the whole landscape, and some of the other labels were invented by social media companies as a smokescreen to make their inaction seem less egregious.
Counter-disinformation efforts are often too far removed from the everyday reality of those affected, which is to say everyone online. Those of us working in the field document disinformation so that policymakers take note and, if we’re lucky, pass laws. We archive so that prosecutors take on the legal cases that are. We report so that social media companies are pressured to change their policies.
In almost every case, 'disinformation' claims are by liberals against conservatives. It's not facts vs lies, it's just political wrangling.
Where it lives? You mean ?
social media is a seance on tide pods