A mechanism that purports to make that stream more accurate — even though a corrections button would not fully prevent bad information from spreading — would lull us toward a more complacent, less critical view of that stream.
But bad information not only affects my family, my team and the people who take care of me.
But Mr. Sklar added a note of caution, saying that overzealous civilians could not only pass along bad information, but also become involved in potentially dangerous activity.
People made bad decisions because they were gullible or greedy, not because they had bad information.
I think that's a longstanding process possibly where people don't want to relay bad information," Clancy said.
Embedded in this idea is the parallel notion that consumers aren't stupid, that they're able to process information and not get systematically duped by bad information or advertising.
But a defense lawyer, in his own closing argument, said the officer, Francisco Rosario, was nothing more than a frightened policeman who committed a mistake, not a crime, by giving bad information to the agents.
And if he doesn't, then his complaint that young people pursuing neo-traditional visions of dating and romance are operating on "bad information" doesn't make much sense.
It wasn't the first time that bad information had come out of his office.
People don't mean to give you bad information, but it unfortunately happens all the time.
"A creeping buildup of bad information isn't helpful" in getting convictions, said Peter Henning, a white-collar-crime legal scholar at Wayne State University.
