What the Bluesky thread reveals is a category error being sustained in real time. The "misinformation crisis" framing [4] — rooted in aggregate search volume and documented hallucination rates — describes a systemic infrastructure problem: AI outputs that are confidently wrong, served at scale, to people who have largely stopped verifying them. But the individual cases circulating alongside it describe something else: a politician using an AI-generated image for self-aggrandizement and then lying about its origin , or users querying Claude for political opposition research . These are manipulation and…