Misinformation

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Misinformation is in use by governments, by people with certain agendas, by news agencies, by religions, and can be used by any agency that wishes to spread information about any particular topic. The goal of misinformation is to convince other people to believe in something by means of false and inaccurate data.

Table of contents

What is misinformation
Propaganda in the Cold War
Current situations that propaganda has been used in
Useful links

1 What is Misinformation
2 Propaganda in the Cold War
3 Current Situations
4 External Links

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What is Misinformation

Misinformation is wrong or inaccurate information that is intended to mislead people into believing one thing or another. Different people use misinformation for various reasons. Misinformation has been popularized by various news agencies in the United States... and perhaps in Europe and abroad. Here in the United States there is one particular news agency called Fox News that spreads misinformation all the time. They are a news agency that is known to produce Pro-Republican propaganda. Fox News is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who owns many different news media outlets, and owns myspace as well, and is a conservative. By this information one can see that Rupert Murdoch uses his news agencies to spread various inaccuracies about Democratic policies and candidates themselves... to push for a Republican agenda.

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Propaganda in the Cold War

Propaganda is also a form of misinformation. Propaganda was widely used by both Soviets and the United States throughout the cold war. False information portrayed both sides as being inherently evil. The Communists got to people in the United States by attracting a large group of Soviet sympathizers and intellectuals-- and attracted a lot of people over to the Communist party.

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Current Situations

Various news agencies in the United States in the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia have painted Russia as a villain and have said that they threaten nations with nukes when Russia themselves haven't actually acted on any of those claims that news agencies have put out. Several news agencies have also spread propaganda about Iran. Originally news agencies were spreading misinformation that Iran was supporting terrorism in Iraq. It was said by news agencies that Iran supplied terrorists with weapons. They did not mention at that time that they had prior intelligence beforehand that Iran supported terrorism and was probably supporting terrorists in Iraq. The information being presented here is thus inaccurate and thus misleading to make one think that Iran only supplied them with weapons. But they did not right away say that Iran supported terrorism. As they did not tell the entire truth what they said was as one could say inaccurate data. False intelligence. They had the facts yet they were not presenting them.

Various articles in major newspapers sometimes seem to present various misinformation as well. Articles about politics... like ones about political candidates in the election can tend to show completely inaccurate judgments about a particular candidate. They were intentionally put there. Examples are frequently seen when a pro-John McCain journalist writes in favor of John McCain's policies and bashes Obama for "not being experienced" or when a pro-Obama supporter attacks John McCain's policies and makes the article seem to be more positive toward Obama.

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