What’s misinformation about this? Honest question, I think the facts aren’t misinformation, that the US has shot down foreign aerial objects.

that’s what I’m saying, surely the government and military would never lie to the public

Could have been there's always been plenty of aerial objects floating around, but it is now politically expedient to do something about it.

Do you actually think that's the case?

I actually do. It is dirt cheap to do (on the scale of national budgets) and can provide extra intel.

Fox has latched onto the tethered surveillance balloons along the US-Mexico border as a symbol of Federal attention on the trickle of people.

There are no such thing as high altitude tethered balloon, but I'm not surprised that Fox ran with it.

They in fact said aerostatic and low altitude but it’s good to see you getting your facts before complaining about misinformation.

What is the misinformation?

We know there is misinformation, because social media and mainstream media are well established at this point as platforms for disinformation, propaganda and psychological operations by various interests. We can assume for the sake of argument that we're being lied to about something, the only open questions are what about, by whom and to what end.

All media has been a platform for disinformation. The question I have for you is if everything is a lie how could you possibly believe that you can come to a correct answer about your open question? Even you lie to yourself.

The issue is not that you are being lied to, but that you are spreading lies.

China has labeled the multitude of balloons as US-Japan misinformation. I haven’t heard a denial, though.