disinformation

Meaning

Noun

False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation.
Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content. Intentionally created conspiracy theories or rumors.

Origin

1955. From dis- + information, calqued from , a word coined by Joseph Stalin c. 1923 (see the Wikipedia article). dezinformatsiya.

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