Definition of disinformation

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dis·in·for·ma·tion

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NOUN:

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).
Dissemination of such misleading information.

ETYMOLOGY:
Possibly translation of Russian dezinformatsiya

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