misinformation

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Recent Examples of misinformation Senators scrutinized his history of spreading vaccine safety misinformation, especially regarding his claims about a link between the measles vaccine and autism risk in children. Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 31 Jan. 2025 Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who has often sparred with Trump, accused the president of pushing misinformation. Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025 Sixty-five percent of anti-vaccine misinformation circulating online in 2021 could be traced back to just a dozen social media influencers, according to an analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025 President 's choice to nominate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to serve as secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and place the lives and health of every American in the hands of a conspiracy theorist, misinformation spreader, and science denier is the wrong one. Edward J. Markey, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for misinformation 

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“Misinformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misinformation. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.

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