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Now that we've got "malinformation" for "true information your rulers want you ignorant or disbelieving of" we should introduce a phrase for "information your rulers demand you believe" and true/false subsets of that


Seems to cover more than that, things we should be ignorant of could simply be labeled as False. Malinformation seems to be about how facts should only be interpreted in a certain way. So for example a factual statistic but it can only mean what the government decided it means (i.e. supports the government's policy).




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