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disinformation
noun as in deception
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noun as in inveracity
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- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- canard
- cock-and-bull story
- deceit
- deception
- defamation
- detraction
- dishonesty
- distortion
- evasion
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsity
- fib
- fiction
- forgery
- fraudulence
- guile
- hyperbole
- inaccuracy
- invention
- libel
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- myth
- obloquy
- perjury
- prevarication
- revilement
- reviling
- slander
- story
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- untruth
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
noun as in lie
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noun as in propaganda
Example Sentences
Putting Verify’s brand in different formats and onto new platforms will allow its fact-checking content to reach more people in local communities vulnerable to misinformation and disinformation, which is false information spread regardless of intent.
One of the most prolific sources of vaccine disinformation, Doctores por la Verdad, or Doctors for Truth, appears to have started in Spain and moved to Argentina and a dozen other countries, peddling myths that eventually reached the United States.
Meanwhile, Democrats tend to be intent on changing Section 230 to suppress extremist speech, ad messages or disinformation that could lead to harassment or harm against vulnerable people.
Most dangerously, the disinformation often contains a grain of truth to make it more believable.
Today, like the 1940s, we must confront dangerous concentrations of unaccountable media power and attendant disinformation about public health, elections, insurrections and other life and death issues.
He said the news of his appointment was not true, that it was disinformation spread by “some intelligence agency and my rivals.”
The founder of Valor por Tamaulipas disputes this version of events and has characterized it as disinformation.
At your press conference yesterday, you referred to Russian disinformation concerning the Ukrainian situation.
But, with all due respect to the Putinized founts of disinformation, that is not where things stand at the moment.
One suggested explanation, has been the surge of unchecked disinformation available online.
Deception, misinformation, and disinformation are key components in this assault on the will and understanding of the opponent.
Deception, disinformation, and misinformation will become major elements of this systemic approach.
Middlemen thrive of disinformation, misinformation and lack of information.
Deception, disinformation, and misinformation would be applied massively.
Deception, disinformation, and guile are more crucial in this regime.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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