Aren't Misinformation and Disinformation The Same Thing?

 NO.

So, to make this simple....MISinformation occurs daily and it's a pretty routine thing.  

This is where false information comes out and it's just mixed with various facts to make you buy something or avoid something.

It's like your teacher telling you to avoid fatty food for x-reason.  X-reason might only be half-right....but she mixed the facts with some premise that she believed.

Or it's like the teacher having the schoolbook text to evolution and just finding forty reasons to skip that part of the lesson plan.

DISinformation is typically propaganda, where you are told facts, which are absolutely designed to bring you to one conclusion.  

It's always intentional when disinformation is handed out and geared to make you react in a certain way.  

Up until the last decade or two....disinformation was just occasionally occurring.  Today?  You probably get around forty bits of disinformation on a daily basis....handed out by news organizations who may or may not realize what the source is doing.

You could receive disinformation from your minister, your professor, or even your kid's teacher.