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I'll contest this. You can misinform people using only the truth. Information can be entirely true and still lead to you being misinformed without necessary context.
I don't doubt there are people celebrating murder in Arabic. My problem is that I see people celebrating murder in English every time I open Twitter, but nobody writes that article about English-speaking comments. Selective reporting can misinform people by providing a biased and limited set of information that is otherwise completely factual and true.
Everybody sitting here pretending otherwise leads me to believe that the point was to misinform, but this misinformation confirms many people's biases so they're fine with it.