How to Use disinformation in a Sentence

disinformation

noun

• The government used disinformation to gain support for the policy.
• This week is set to bring a major test of modern freedom of the press in an era of disinformation.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2023
• The last threat to be on alert for is an all-too-familiar one by now: disinformation.
  — Steve Piper, Forbes, 23 May 2022
• And in a rush to do just that, a lot of misconceptions and disinformation have made their way through the pipeline.
  — Francis Dinha, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• The pace of disinformation has not kept only the fact checkers busy.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• Over the past decade, Russian disinformation efforts have evolved to keep up with the current web trends, Watts says.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• There was a ton of disinformation surrounding why the floor was shut down.
  — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
• There was a ton of disinformation surrounding why the floor was shut down.
  — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
• Since Califf took over a year ago, the FDA has set its sights on social-media disinformation as a public-health scourge.
  — Fiona Rutherford, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• But there were questions from the start about how online disinformation had skewed the results.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
• There was already enough evidence of scams, rugpulls, disinformation, and fraud to make anyone wary of the blockchain for the next decade at least.
  — WIRED, 26 Mar. 2023
• With that, the disinformation was spread in the US and solidified in Russia.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 14 Apr. 2022
• Biden’s campaign at the time said it had been referred to the attorney general, and slammed the call as disinformation.
  — David Wright, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• Any public statement by Prigozhin, who claims openly to be in the business of disinformation, should be taken with a grain of salt, Rid said.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• Kennedy has spread vaccine disinformation, even as the nation is on track to surpass the largest number of measles cases since 2019.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 25 June 2025
• His fiery speech rankled some on the county board and got him a guest spot on right-wing platforms like the disinformation outlet InfoWars.
  — Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard and Rachel Clarke, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
• Young became the first major artist to demand his own music be pulled from the streaming service to protest the disinformation.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2022
• This tracks with the rise of pundits and politicians who have tried to erode public trust in media, along with the rise in disinformation campaigns about climate change.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 May 2024
• Most of the disinformation shared with the participants was coming from strangers, the report said.
  — Cristina Corujo, Sheena Samu, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2022
• The tools that worked in Syria will not be identical to disinformation campaigns in Europe or the United States.
  — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
• Since Musk bought Twitter and relaxed policing of what users post, hate speech and disinformation have increased on the service.
  — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 9 June 2023
• The backlash to the Russian disinformation campaign in the 2016 U.S. election?
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• Trust and safety, the teams that keep mis- and disinformation and hate speech off the platforms, have been particularly hard hit.
  — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
• People are very good at spreading disinformation, just analog style, which is the core of the human condition, and that’s our lot.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
• The pattern is just one example of a playbook that enables China to cover the war through the lens of Russian rhetoric and disinformation.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 10 Mar. 2022
• It’s also not the first time Zelensky has been the target of a disinformation campaign.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 July 2022
• Without these outlets, the US has lost a way to combat disinformation.
  — Sean Collins, Vox, 19 Mar. 2025
• The disinformation war has now moved well past that initial stage, but continues apace.
  — Vera Bergengruen, Time, 26 Feb. 2022
• The report also highlights how, in a world defined by disinformation and crises, there is a growing need for trust and transparency.
  — Dmitry Malin, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
• The crisis response mechanism was a late addition to the law, added in part in response to Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022, amid increasing fears of online disinformation about the conflict.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025