disinformation

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Recent Examples of disinformation In recent years, as Bolsonaro and his allies engineered a pervasive campaign of false claims on the Brazilian internet, de Moraes led an effort to combat disinformation. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025 Advertisement Advertisement This means that AI chatbots are prone to parroting narratives spread by Russian disinformation networks, NewsGuard claims. Billy Perrigo, Time, 10 Sep. 2025 The unauthorized use of AI platforms can unknowingly expose organizations to data privacy issues, compliance violations and even disinformation risks. Ofer Klein, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 The show is understood to center around secret and mistaken identities, and the way that social media turbocharges rage, rumour and disinformation in today’s world. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disinformation
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propaganda
Noun
  • During World War II, Husseini became a Nazi collaborator, broadcasting propaganda into the Arab world, touring death camps with his friend Heinrich Himmler, recruiting SS divisions, and hatching a plot to poison Tel Aviv’s water supply.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Terrorists expanded their use of the internet for a wide range of activities, including planning attacks, radicalization and recruitment, propaganda dissemination, and fundraising.
    Richard Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Disinformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disinformation. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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