“Madam Speaker, I am surprised that we are discussing the difference between misinformation and disinformation. I think my friend from Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan would agree that if we look at any dictionary definition, “misinformation” can be understood to be an error or mistake, and “disinformation” is defined universally as being deliberately deceptive. Spreading something with the intent to deceive is usually what we find in the dictionary there. I think it is important in this place that we not suggest they are the same term or that they can be confused. In terms of this legislation, I know there is a lot to be determined later in regulations. For that terminology, can we assume that any commissioner will rely on commonly understood Oxford English Dictionary sorts of definitions for the difference, with “disinformation” meaning deliberately deceitful?”
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Madam Speaker, Claims · 86 wordsof course I agree there is a difference between those two words.My point was simply that those words get thrown around casually, often interchangeably, and admittedly in a way that is disconnected from the true meanings of them.Because it is against parliamentary rules for someone to accuse someone else of lying in this place, I think often people just say that something is misinformation, 1which is their way of trying to get underneath the rules of not being able to say someone is lying.Reasoning · 72 wordsThe point, though, is that when we have the casual use of the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” thrown against political critics at the same time as there is legislation aiming to, through legal intervention and online regulation, prevent misinformation and disinformation, there is a bit of a problem: How do we prevent the misuse of terms that we see in political discourse from creeping into the misuse of terms in other places?Procedure · 11 wordsI will pick up on what the member said as well.ProcedureClaims · 11 wordsShe highlighted the number of decisions that are left to regulation.2Positioning · 8 wordsThat is a concern we have in general.PositioningReasoning · 28 wordsThe number of decisions in this framework that are ultimately left to regulation rather than established in legislation increases the risk and potential concern of abusive decisions later.
