What’s the difference between misinformation and disinformation? How could this affect a journalist’s story if he or she is not careful?

Disinformation: false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.

Misinformation: false or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceive.

those are the meaning of Disinformation and Misinformation.

It could mess up the story or even confuse the reader into thinking something different from what is actually is.

The difference: Misinformation is information that's false, but not necessarily intentionally false. So, a rumor that turns out not to be true. But the people who created it didn't know that it wasn't true when they created it," explained Starbird. "Disinformation, on the other hand, is information that's misleading, false or misleading for some kind of purpose, often a political objective. And we see disinformation as much more, in some ways, problematic because it's an intentional distortion of the information space

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