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misinform

[mis-in-fawrm] / ˌmɪs ɪnˈfɔrm /


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“Bad actors are using A.I.-generated voices in unsolicited robocalls to extort vulnerable family members, imitate celebrities and misinform voters.”

From New York Times Feb. 8, 2024

It said that “nobody is allowed to terrorize and misinform the public” on public health issues.

From Washington Times Dec. 6, 2023

Their manifestos and writings show they were well-versed in the online subcultures, conspiracy theories and memes, and used those to deliberately "troll" or misinform.

From BBC May 17, 2022

“Respondent did not deliberately attempt to mislead, misinform or deceive the electorate,” the ruling said.

From Seattle Times Jan. 17, 2022

"Whaever tell't ye that, didna misinform ye," replied the old woman drily.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton

Mozilla senior director of advocacy Brandy Guerkink says “YouTube needs to admit their algorithm is designed in a way that harms and misinforms people.”

From The Verge Jul. 7, 2021

Once absorbed into received knowledge, such research misinforms subsequent scientific judgments.

From Scientific American Dec. 27, 2020

Q: Do you think social media ever misinforms about what it’s like to live this way?

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2020

Enough running attention-grabbing news coverage that not only misinforms the public, but endangers the very community members you serve.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2019

In the final test, they provided much more detail about the specific flaws in the Oregon Petition, and how it misinforms people.

From The Guardian Jan. 24, 2017

And while he's glad to see it reach a wider audience, he worries the way it is interpreted can be "outdated, misinformed and, in the worst case, harmful."

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

The study states that the false belief has led "to negative consequences, including misinformed risk‐taking by those encountering snakes, unwarranted fear among snakebite victims, and inappropriate care delivered by misinformed or patient/family‐pressured medical professionals."

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

Rama has pivoted between downplaying the protesters as misinformed and dismissing the movement as foreign-backed.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

Once a correspondent on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” he landed his own Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report,” where he played a bloviating, misinformed character, also named Stephen Colbert.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us, as a people.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Seattle police officers will be limited in using ruses — a tactic of deliberately misinforming the public — starting Wednesday, following a three-year push to create a policy.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2023

Romanian officials are not explaining their previous vehement denials of the drone incident, although the defence minister is taking the blame for "misinforming" the country's president.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2023

Beyond misinforming the public, its story distorted U.S. policy decisions and, most important, deepened patients’ suffering, which it cannot be said enough, is very real.

From Scientific American Mar. 6, 2023

We should make sure that dashboards offer more, not less, explanatory value than the misinforming narratives that vastly outnumber the charts and graphs published by states and newspapers.

From Slate Feb. 8, 2021

Besides which she had more than enough to do in caring for her own house, mending my father’s clothes and misinforming the public as to Post Office regulations.

From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett




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