as in lie
information that is not completely true or accurate
a company accused of providing misinformation to its shareholders
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Recent Examples of misinformation
There was always misinformation, which is different.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Image The government has accused Mr. Musk, who owns the social media platform X, of peddling misinformation, pointing to his social media posts that promote a conspiracy theory that white South Africans are facing genocide, and his characterization of a land-reform law as racist.
—Zimasa Matiwane, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Kennedy has expressed skepticism over inoculation and is known to traffic in medical misinformation.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2025
As measles cases rise across the United States, misinformation about the life-threatening infection can put people at risk.
—Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Image The government has accused Mr. Musk, who owns the social media platform X, of peddling misinformation, pointing to his social media posts that promote a conspiracy theory that white South Africans are facing genocide, and his characterization of a land-reform law as racist.
—Zimasa Matiwane, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Kennedy has expressed skepticism over inoculation and is known to traffic in medical misinformation.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2025
As measles cases rise across the United States, misinformation about the life-threatening infection can put people at risk.
—Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misinformation
Noun
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In some contexts, [Lay] is the past tense of lie, as in recline.—
Sam Corbin,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps that’s what makes my lies defective and disjointed.—
Domenico Starnone,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In February 2022, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff rejected Palin's claims in a ruling issued while a jury deliberated, saying Palin had failed to show that the Times had acted out of malice, something required in libel lawsuits involving public figures.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Lipstadt became famous—and was later portrayed onscreen by Rachel Weisz—for winning a judgment in a British court against the Holocaust denier David Irving, who had sued her for libel.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Misinformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misinformation. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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