When did the term "disinformation" come to replace "bullshit"?
National security speak creeps into public use
Around the time CIA cancers in the media started outnumbering genuine reporters and journalists. Call it circa 1999
We ran out of bulls
I do think there's a subtle difference. Bullshit is what you spout at the bar when you've got a couple drinks in you and feel braggy. Disinformation is a targeted campaign of spreading falsehood in service of advancing propaganda for nefarious purposes.
When they started talking about it in media venues where they're not allowed to say "bullshit."
Around the same time “enshitification” became a synonym for capitalism.
When did newspapers write about bullshit?
Interesting that you equate those claiming an opinion as 'Russian bot" disinformation with "volunteer James Jesus Angletons" Angleton profiles as one of the Billionaire/KKK/Christian/Nazi/Russian/Israeli syncretic network creating a secret monarchy hidden by a democracy run on disinformation
When the fourth estate ceased to hold power to account.
If a right wing person or policy results in irrefutable harm that would be easily understood by a child, someone will come up with an abstracting euphemism that the New York Times will use immediately.