Disinformation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The dissemination of intentionally false information to deliberately confuse or mislead.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)
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