disinformation

A four-panel SMBC comic. A person with teal hair asks a man with short hair and a beard why disinformation spreads so much faster than information. He replies, "This is just basic physics." He explains that information can't travel faster than light, and if you push the equations of relativity past lightspeed you end up with an imaginary term, so "by definition, 'only' imaginary information can go faster than information." The teal-haired person responds, "This is wrong, but it would explain so much," as the man enthusiastically declares, "It's not just disinformation, it's an entire distheoretical framework!" The joke puns on the imaginary numbers of faster-than-light relativity to suggest false ('imaginary') information travels faster than true information.