Charlie Ward: Glenn Ward Interview | Fighting Misinformation

Charlie Ward's son has come forward to help those who are stuck in the Rabbit Hole of #disinformation #misinformation.

Your Mental Health is so important, with what were are Glenn Ward are doing is to provide help and support to others that have been infected by the mass Disinformation, Fake New & Misinformation that has been published his father via a number of social media platforms.

If you feel you mental health is indeed at risk "PLEASE" talk to a family member, friend or contact a service that can give you help, advice and support.

DON'T SUFFER IN SILENCE

What is misinformation?
Misinformation is “false information that is spread, regardless of intent to mislead.” Put a flag in the second half of this definition; it will be important later.

The spread of misinformation happens often in our everyday lives. We human beings—news flash—are not perfect. We can all make mistakes. We all forget things. We mishear or misremember details. We tell our friends something we heard on TV or saw on social media that wasn’t really true. If you are spreading around information that is wrong but you don’t know it is wrong, then you are, well, technically, spreading misinformation.

And when we say misinformation is an everyday thing, we mean it. For example, say a party starts at 8pm, but you forget or misread the invitation and tell your friends it starts at 9pm, you are supplying them with misinformation. But don’t fear: we’re not calling the fact police on you! The key, here, is that you unwittingly spread false information around; you didn’t mean to, or even might have thought the information was true.

Misinformation doesn’t care about intent, and so is simply a term for any kind of wrong or false information.

What is disinformation?
Disinformation means “false information, as about a country’s military strength or plans, disseminated by a government or intelligence agency in a hostile act of tactical political subversion.” It is also used more generally to mean “deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts; propaganda.”

So, disinformation is knowingly spreading misinformation. Our first definition of this word gives one major reason why a person or group might want to spread wrong information, but there are many other nefarious motivations lurking behind the creation of disinformation.

Let’s go back to the earlier example. Now, if you know a party starts at 8pm but tell your nemesis it starts at 9pm because you want them to look foolish, you are supplying them with disinformation. (Take that, Steve!) When you spread wrong information on purpose, with intent to decide and mislead—that’s disinformation.

Disinformation is very powerful, destructive, and divisive, and is a common tool of espionage. Countries often have an interest in intentionally spreading fake information to their rival nations, as the Soviet Union and United States did during the Cold War, for instance. When a country or group coordinates a complicated plan of spreading disinformation, it is often referred to as a disinformation campaign.