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cycle, there was an awful lot of talk about disinformation and misinformation. Remember,

there was a conflation that occurred between 2016 and 2020. First, in 2020, the story was

disinformation. This was the Russians were mainlining a bunch of

foreign propaganda into America's election and thus twisting the election against the

wonderful and innocent Hillary Clinton and for the evil Russian stooge Donald Trump. That was the

narrative in 2016, 2017. And then it kind of bled away because it turns out the data wasn't there to

suggest that. It looked like the Russians had a bunch of crappy Facebook pages that not all that

many people saw. And so instead, the media turned to their new variant of disinformation,

which was misinformation. Misinformation is just stuff the media doesn't like. Because

sometimes it's true and sometimes it's false. But you can't tell the difference in the way that

the media treat misinformation. And thus, when it came to 2020, the argument was, for example,

that the Hunter Biden laptop story, well, it wasn't quite disinformation because you couldn't tell

if it came from the Russians, but it might be misinformation. And by misinformation, they just

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