Definition of "disinformation" []

• Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation: "He would be the unconscious channel for a piece of disinformation aimed at another country's intelligence service” ( Ken Follett). (noun)
• Dissemination of such misleading information. (noun)

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• "The term disinformation suggests that Linn knowingly spread inaccurate information."
• "GENEVA — The U. N.'s top human rights official hailed the global body's second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a disinformation campaign that almost derailed the meeting."
• "GENEVA — The U. N.'s top human rights official hailed the global body's second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a disinformation ..."