Disinformation; consciously lying, can be used to cause others to unknowingly spread misinformation. Some people will read disinformation, think it makes sense, and then spread it thinking it to be true. Now it becomes misinformation.
Things started to go from bad to worse in about 2015, during the buildup leading to the two USA Presidential Primaries. If you recall, Trump was originality a darling of the main stream and Leftist media, during the Republican Primaries. Nobody thought Trump could or would win, so the Democrat party and their media allies thought they would support Trump, so he could bloody up the top GOP candidates; Jeb Bush and others, going into the general election. Trump had made his fortune in NYC, which was a Democrat stronghold. He was a large donor, so the benefit of the doubt initially applied to him.
When Trump went on to win the Republican nomination, through the Democratic process of voting, the liberal media turned on him. There was no longer any benefit of the doubt. He was now the enemy and the first round of mostly misinformation began; gossip scandals based on he said and she said.
What made things go from bad to worse were the results of the Democrat Primaries. If you recall Bernie Sanders was more dynamic and started to take the lead over Hillary. He was going to be the popular choice in the Democratic voting process. But the game was rigged for Hillary, using the super delegate scam, allowing Hillary to steal the nomination from Bernie. It was ironic that Hillary would complain about winning the popular vote in 2016, while herself using a gimmick to cheat Bernie in the popular vote. The two faced shift to disinformation appears.
Everyone on both sides of the political isle saw the rigged Hillary nomination, and to prevent this from dividing the Democrat party, the Democrats needed a worse bogeyman; Trump, that would be hated more by Bernie voters than they would hate Hillary. She needed Bernie voter enthusiasm.
This is when the Russian Collusion Coup disinformation campaign was in the works, with FBI spying on the Trump campaign, based on what would be proven was a lie. This disinformation was effective in taking the blame for the steal away from Hillary, since the Democrat base swallowed the lie willingly, and passed it on as misinformation that was thought to be true due not the nearly full media disinformation cooperation. After that, it has become the main way for the media and political parties to attack each other.
When Mueller could not blame Trump for Collusion, this disinformation campaign behind the Coup, went silent, but with no apology. This lack of apology, is how you can tell disinformation from misinformation. People will accept being wrong, but a deliberate con artist can never admit anything.
Instead the same con artists started a new disinformation campaign to cover up the Biden family quid pro quo dealings with Ukraine; Russian and China. They blamed Trump. This led to two impeachments where due process was not allowed. This is another tell for disinformation. Misinformation will try to debate and convince, due to a sincere belief the misinformation is true. Disinformation needs to control the information, or else it can be neutralized.
This is why it is important we do a system restore by going back to the last time things were were more friendly and sportsmen like; 2015. This may require exposing those who still head the disinformation campaigns designed to result in misinformation and unintentional division on a wide social scale.
There is symbolism in Revelation of the whore of Babylon riding a scarlet beast. The beast will turn against the whore and burn her with fire. The whore is disinformation for money and power, while the scarlet beast is activism of the misunderstood pool of misinformation thought to be true; scarlet letter. Those who believed the disinformation and were led astray, who unknowingly passed misinformation, will go after the whore so we can get back to normal; sports instead of war.
