In the information age, truthfulness and accuracy take on special importance. For if the information is not accurate or truthful or correct, it is worse than useless. It is ironic that truthfulness no longer seems to hold a place of honor in our society. We find people, including high government officials, lying. Truthfulness takes on more importance than ever.
False information is injurious to a system built on information.
So we have truth as a necessary virtue and a presupposition, and distortion of the truth, lying, the spreading of false information, as vices to be guarded against. The enemy of accuracy is inaccuracy, which also leads to disinformation and error. Information about the world, or scientific information, is one kind of information. Information about societies, or social information, is another kind. Information about people and corporations is another kind.