Were our critics right about the Stasi?
Disinformation, now greatest recognized generically as “faux information,” is an outdated and protean weapon. Prominent in the 1980s was AIDS disinformation, together with the HIV-from-Fort-Detrick fantasy, for whose propagation some figures in the end admitted blame whereas others shamelessly claimed credit score. In 2013 we reported a complete evaluation of this fantasy, discovering main roles for the …