Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation: "He would be the unconscious channel for a piece of disinformation aimed at another country's intelligence service” ( Ken Follett).
- n. Dissemination of such misleading information.
Wiktionary
- n. The dissemination of intentionally false information to deliberately confuse or mislead.
WordNet 3.0
- n. misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)
Etymologies
- From dis- + information, perhaps after Russian дезинформация (dezinformácija), in turn from French désinformation. (Wiktionary)
- Possibly translation of Russian dezinformatsiya. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term disinformation suggests that Linn knowingly spread inaccurate information.”
Are Progressives Being Duped by a Megacorporation's Disinformation Attacks?
“GENEVA — The U. N.'s top human rights official hailed the global body's second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a disinformation campaign that almost derailed the meeting.”
The Huffington Post: UN Rights Chief Claims Durban A Success, Slams Critics
“GENEVA — The U. N.'s top human rights official hailed the global body's second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a disinformation ...”
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“HENRY: Earlier, he took the fight to conservative talk radio, pushing back on what he calls disinformation ...”
“Nkuna blamed this perception on what he described as disinformation by state agents to exarcebated friction between ANC members in the area.”
“Rejecting accusations by the ANC that the document was part of what it called a disinformation campaign, Stadler said his observations were based on facts and thorough research.”
“He acknowledged Ambassador has spent a "significant amount" to fight the project but said it's necessary to counter what he characterizes as disinformation from politicians bent on building a rival crossing that would steal customers.”
“The U. N.'s top human rights official hailed the global body's second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a disinformation campaign that almost derailed the meeting.”
“GENEVA -- The U. N.'s top human rights official hailed the global body's second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a disinformation campaign that almost derailed the meeting.”
“GENEVA - The U. N.'s top human rights official hailed the global body's second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a disinformation campaign that almost derailed the meeting.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘disinformation’.
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
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This is not a list
you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 165 more...
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Confusually
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Vocabulary Words 2.
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 998 more...
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born2badored's Words
livid, fnordy, grok, bloopy, bokonon, disinformation, psychometrics, trip hop, acid jazz, bauble, dynamic, constant and 91 more...
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amcd56's Words
undisillusioned, truthiness, wikiality, nonunparallel, bafflegab, otiose, snarky, gynotikolobomasso..., battology, unasinous, zaftig, mumbo-jumbo and 122 more...
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Gossiphoning
Psst!--Didja know?
nosy, snoopy, scuttlebutt, talebearing, echo chamber, tabloid, bruit, quidnunc, disinformation, rumor, interloper, meddler and 67 more...
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DisenDat
disengage, disenfranchise, disentangle, disenchant, disenable, disenroll, disentitle, disendow, disentail, disencumber, disentwine, disentrance and 23 more...
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points of clarification
. . . or not
panchreston, ignotum per ignotius, amplify, expound, clarify, explain, lay bare, law of parsimony, occam's razor, succinct, befuddle, disinformation and 8 more...
Tweets
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born2badored misinformation on purpose. o-well,what the hell, be Fnordy! Dec 6, 2006