Uninformation

Given that people tend to believe that they know more than they do, are incurious about topics they believe (correctly or not) that they understand and are willing to act on what they think they know without validating it first, worrying about disinformation campaigns waged by others starts to look like scapegoating, especially when such campaigns appear to do little other than reinforce beliefs that the targets already hold.

On YouTube, there's an entertaining reading of a letter that one Kent Ashcroft wrote to radio personality Laura Schlessinger (whether it was ever actually sent to, and received by, her is unknown) calling her to task for citing the book of Leviticus to support her idea that homosexuality was a form of biological error, while ignoring other strictures laid out in the same text.

A number of the comments on the video make claims about the letter, and its intent, that are easily checked and found to be false; in fact, a number of people point out the errors over and over again, only for new people to show up and make the same incorrect statements. One can solve for outside actors seeking to spread bogus information and still have a problem with the citizenry simply being gullible when presented with information that confirms their preconceptions.