I am definitely not okay with lying. I didn't read the article :) but from your description it didn't sound like lying.
> As to unrest, which causes more, social inequality or people acting out after being fed bad information? Which caused more attacks and deaths in the US over the past 4 years? Which causes more damage to the planet?
I don't know which is worse. I would say people definitely need given proper context, but social inequality is probably the problem I would fix first if I had the choice.
>social inequality is probably the problem I would fix
I would too, but I would deal with based on correctly sourced evidence. The majority of the anti-inequality articles I see are filled with bad math, bad analysis, and would lead to solutions that end up hurting more people.
Burning down things for which one does not understand the reasons they work the current way is a sure way to get worse outcomes. Two examples - tons of people wanted to burn down banking during the 2008 crisis, but those naive solutions would have vastly hurt the least able. Naive ham-handed making a fed min wage $15/hr would put (middle CBO estimate) over a million people out of work, because they could not add $15/hr in value to an employer. A better solution is using targeted assistance of scarce tax money to help people that need it and not just shovel it anywhere.
But the layman seems to fill themselves with outrage by poorly written or analyzed articles and then brings pitchforks out, electing people with bad understanding or reason, and we're all worse off.
Also, the poor in the US are vastly richer than pretty much any other poor on the planet. Would you lower the US standard of living, including making our poor poorer, to help the rest of the planet? (or replace US with whatever country you're in).
> As to unrest, which causes more, social inequality or people acting out after being fed bad information? Which caused more attacks and deaths in the US over the past 4 years? Which causes more damage to the planet?
I don't know which is worse. I would say people definitely need given proper context, but social inequality is probably the problem I would fix first if I had the choice.