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Recent Examples of disinformation
Cognitive warfare includes misinformation and disinformation operations, influence operations and narrative operations.
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Michael Miklaucic, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2025
This now rings insultingly hollow— in 2021 Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed that the company, soon renamed Meta, did in fact have the tools to effectively halt the spread of dangerous disinformation on everything from politics to medicine.
—David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
TikTok and its ilk are said to be harming mental health, stifling creativity, eroding privacy, fueling disinformation, undermining national security, and so on.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2025
Terrorist and extremist groups, including Islamic State, have even released guides demonstrating how to use AI to develop propaganda and disinformation.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Michael Miklaucic, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2025
This now rings insultingly hollow— in 2021 Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed that the company, soon renamed Meta, did in fact have the tools to effectively halt the spread of dangerous disinformation on everything from politics to medicine.
—David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
TikTok and its ilk are said to be harming mental health, stifling creativity, eroding privacy, fueling disinformation, undermining national security, and so on.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2025
Terrorist and extremist groups, including Islamic State, have even released guides demonstrating how to use AI to develop propaganda and disinformation.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disinformation
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“Disinformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disinformation. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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