This election might have less misinformation than 2016’s race, but “Christine Blasey Ford — proudly posing with Soros” and “We’re making a Woman’s Vote Worth more by staying home” are still out there.
The New York Times’ Kevin Roose (and other reporters and editors) sifted through more than 4,000 examples of misinformation on social media, messaging apps, and emails submitted by readers over the past two months. “Times journalists are hoping to use your tips to advance our reporting. If you see a suspicious post or text, please take a screenshot and upload it with the form below,” Roose wrote in mid-September.
The submissions helped fuel the Times’ reporting and chronicle the types of misinformation spread around the internet.
The callout asked only about disinformation; the post about the responses, however, focused on misinformation. While we are glad to see no mention of f— news in either writeup, it would probably help the discussion to make the distinction between the two: disinformation being the intentional dissemination of false info to deceive, misinformation being false info spread possibly on accident when people really don’t realize it’s not true.
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