How to Use disinformation in a Sentence

disinformation

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  • The government used disinformation to gain support for the policy.
  • This week is set to bring a major test of modern freedom of the press in an era of disinformation.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The last threat to be on alert for is an all-too-familiar one by now: disinformation.
    — Steve Piper, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • The pace of disinformation has not kept only the fact checkers busy.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Over the past decade, Russian disinformation efforts have evolved to keep up with the current web trends, Watts says.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Since Califf took over a year ago, the FDA has set its sights on social-media disinformation as a public-health scourge.
    — Fiona Rutherford, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • There was already enough evidence of scams, rugpulls, disinformation, and fraud to make anyone wary of the blockchain for the next decade at least.
    — WIRED, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Biden’s campaign at the time said it had been referred to the attorney general, and slammed the call as disinformation.
    — David Wright, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Any public statement by Prigozhin, who claims openly to be in the business of disinformation, should be taken with a grain of salt, Rid said.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • This tracks with the rise of pundits and politicians who have tried to erode public trust in media, along with the rise in disinformation campaigns about climate change.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 May 2024
  • Most of the disinformation shared with the participants was coming from strangers, the report said.
    — Cristina Corujo, Sheena Samu, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The tools that worked in Syria will not be identical to disinformation campaigns in Europe or the United States.
    — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Since Musk bought Twitter and relaxed policing of what users post, hate speech and disinformation have increased on the service.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • Trust and safety, the teams that keep mis- and disinformation and hate speech off the platforms, have been particularly hard hit.
    — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
  • People are very good at spreading disinformation, just analog style, which is the core of the human condition, and that’s our lot.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
  • It’s also not the first time Zelensky has been the target of a disinformation campaign.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 July 2022
  • The preliminaries showed that Trump's efforts to spread disinformation and seed false claims of fraud started months before the election, in the spring of 2020.
    — Norman Eisen, CNN, 14 June 2022
  • The station, which its critics accuse of ‘pushing right-wing and sometimes racist disinformation,’ has been a darling of the Latino right for years.
    — Fox News, 14 June 2022
  • But none of these nods towards Trump are as obvious as Musk’s support for the former president, and the use of X to seed mis- and disinformation about the election, says Pardal.
    — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Yet disinformation is only one front in the war over guns, while actual guns continue to claim tens of thousands of lives per year.
    — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 9 June 2022
  • With all the good that the internet has brought, there’s so much pain and misinformation and disinformation.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Twitter users to contribute to disinformation spread, just like the story Musk linked and then deleted.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2022
  • There’s so much disinformation pouring into people’s ears and eyes at the moment with regards to Ukraine.
    — Brendan O'Meara, Longreads, 21 July 2022
  • It’s made a lot of errors summarizing the news, and it’s been called out for spreading election disinformation.
    — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The long-beloved tool helped researchers and journalists track disinformation online and will be sorely missed.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Some of the disinformation comes in the form of two videos that have been disseminated since late August, Microsoft said.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • For months, Trump has fed the electorate disinformation to stoke fear and division in society.
    — Barbara McQuade, TIME, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Carlson has been spreading lies and disinformation on Fox News for years, much to the delight of viewers who would rather have their beliefs confirmed than be presented with the truth.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The tactic is part of a broader pattern of disinformation adopted by the Kremlin to undermine Western support for Ukraine in the conflict.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In the past two decades, three other areas of concern have been added: climate change, artificial Intelligence and mis- and disinformation.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025

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