disinformation

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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.

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  1. noun 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).
  2. noun Dissemination of such misleading information.

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  1. Possibly translation of Russian dezinformatsiya.
 

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