Disinformation
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation. uncountable
- 2 misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) wordnet
- 3 Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content; intentionally created conspiracy theories or rumors. uncountable
"Moreover, Trump’s use of obvious disinformation — the amateurish video he showed Ramaphosa, and his accompanying statements about the “over a thousand” killings of white farmers — to try and make his case has uprooted whatever U.S. credibility had survived over the last several months."
- 1 To use disinformation. transitive
"A country cannot disinformation its way out of fallen soldiers."
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More examples"I'm tired of disinformation on Tatoeba."
Etymology
Composed of dis- + information. Attested in the sense “intentional misinformation” in English from 1939. A different usage of disinformation occurred earlier, as early as 1887, as a simple synonym of misinformation.
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