People often ask, what's the difference between misinformation, disinformation, media manipulation, etc. In lectures, I found the best way for people to understand concepts is with a real-life example. Here are these ideas in action using what's happening right now.

Misinformation - the Polls. They predicted a "blue wave" and waning support for Trump. They were wrong, but pollsters' intent was not to deceive the public (IMO)

Disinformation - Trump claiming he won the election before all votes were counted. He did not have 270 electoral votes. He was wrong and he knew it.

Malinformation - Distorting the fact that GA, NC, NV, PA are still counting votes. Other states are still counting votes! It's just that states like LA or NY are so far in one direction the outstanding votes left to be counting won't change the electoral outcome.

Media Manipulation - Claiming "The Left" is trying to "steal" the election. Search for more information on this and the top return is a conservative website claiming this election is stolen. "Stop the steal" is a curated keyword.

Problematic Information = all of the above. These examples erode public confidence in the election (including bad polling). But the goal of spreading dis-mal information pertaining to counting votes/false wins is to create civil conflict. The intent is to harm democracy.

Many of these concepts were developed by the always brilliant @cjack @cward1e - although lots of us think about it now.
More resources here:
https://medium.com/1st-draft/fake-news-its-complicated-d0f773766c79 https://datasociety.net/library/lexicon-of-lies/