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[ UK /dˌɪsˌɪnfəmˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsˌɪnfəmˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)
How To Use disinformation In A Sentence
- Williamson is well known to have been a highly successful spy, and high up in the apartheid regime's disinformation network.
- This was only one aspect of their disinformation campaign. Times, Sunday Times
- Ironically enough, Sunstein himself has recently been the object of a right - wing disinformation campaign.
- By the time the number of examples of myths, false assertions and cases of deliberate disinformation had reached 40 I reckoned it was time to publish them.
- They spread disinformation in order to discredit politicians.
- The statement of two quadrillion is right up there with every other lie, disinformation and irrational statement of the CONservative inaccuracy machine. Think Progress » Alito’s Mom:
- The Germans totally believed our disinformation campaign prior to the Normandy invasion.
- It is their sneaky methods, of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of intelligence.
- In short, Miller was the "stovepipe" (a Sy Hersh phrase for unvetted intelligence) for disinformation from the Administration and Ahmed Chalabi about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction on to the front page of the Times in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and just afterwards. William E. Jackson Jr.: The Satrapy at West 43rd: One Armchair Critic's Disillusionment On The Eve of Full Disclosure
- I would hypothesize that the leftward movement of America in recent years is a direct result of the multibillion-dollar edifice of wingnut disinformation that inundates us today. Think Progress » Limbaugh compares Pelosi to a terrorist for saying passing health care is more important than re-election.