There’s an interesting question about whether an untrue claim, such as The capital of Australia is Sydney, counts as information. Usually we’d count it as misinformation and distinguish it from information, but sometimes it makes sense to group these two categories together. In a modern database, for example, a fair amount of the information contained may be misinformation. An online database may have an outdated address for me and the wrong date of birth. Philosophers usually reserve the word fact for claims that are true, and use the word proposition for claims that may be true or false.
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