| LC control no. | sh 85038430 |
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| Topical heading | Disinformation |
| See also | Deception Intelligence service Online manipulation |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on false or misleading information that is deliberately and/or covertly disseminated, often by an intelligence organization to confuse another nation's intelligence operations. Works on false or out-of-context information that is presented as fact regardless of an intent to deceive are entered under Misinformation. |
| Found in | Merriam-Webster dictionary online, viewed Oct. 18, 2017 (disinformation: false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth) Oxford English dictionary online, viewed Oct. 18, 2017 (disinformation: The dissemination of deliberately false information, esp. when supplied by a government or its agent to a foreign power or to the media, with the intention of influencing the policies or opinions of those who receive it; false information so supplied) |
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