protest misinformation tracked by Zignal Labs

[GoodTaste]

Does "tracked by ZL" mean "ZL found out the truth (these messages about looting are misinformation)"?

====================
Senator’s ‘Send In the Troops’ Op-Ed in The Times Draws Online Ire

.....................In the essay, Mr. Cotton also described instances of looting in New York City as “carnivals for the thrill-seeking rich as well as other criminal elements” and warned that the antifascism movement “antifa” had infiltrated the marches. (On Monday, a Times article described the theory that antifa was responsible for the riots and looting as “the biggest piece of protest misinformation tracked by Zignal Labs,” a media insights company.)

Source: NYTimes June 3, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/b...mid=tw-nytimes

 

[jutfrank]

I'm not sure what Zignal Labs does exactly, but it seems they track information. The misinformation is the fact that Antifa is responsible for the riots and looting.

 

[GoesStation]

The misinformation is the [STRIKE]fact[/STRIKE] assertion that Antifa is responsible for the riots and looting.

The fact that xxx is often used immediately before proving that xxx is not actually a fact. I prefer to use another word for counterfactual assertions.

 

[GoesStation]

Does "tracked by ZL" mean "ZL found out the truth (these messages about looting are misinformation)"?

No. Look up the verb "track". How do you think the writer used it?

 

[GoodTaste]

No. Look up the verb "track". How do you think the writer used it?

Here, the author used it to refer to "follow the course of the misinformation: its orgin, its transmission, its purpose etc.." What ZL has found is that the theory of antifa being responsible for looting and riots is misinformation... wait a minute-here's for problem in understanding: Is ZL simply tracking the theory (yet it has no clue whether antifa is responsible or not)? Or has ZL really found the theory is misinformation? It is not clear to me from the context of the OP.

 

[GoesStation]

Or has ZL really found the theory is misinformation? It is not clear to me from the context of the OP.

The quote only tells us that ZL tracks "protest misinformation". It's reasonable to guess that they also identify it as such, but the quote doesn't say so.

 

[GoodTaste]

The quote only tells us that ZL tracks "protest misinformation". It's reasonable to guess that they also identify it as such, but the quote doesn't say so.

Supposed that you are exactly the ZL, how do you in the first place identify a message about protest as "protest information" or "protest misinformation"? It is odd that in the OP someone has labled it as "protest misinformation": Who? How? When?