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Disinformation

The fake news that distract us through our personal devices, which we seldom stop to question, because of our impatience and laziness to think critically.
If American voters had known that all the disinformation on social media during the presidential campaign were fabricated thanks to Putin and gang to increase the odds of Donald Trump becoming President, the world wouldn’t have been so chaotic and pessimistic today.
by MathPlus December 10, 2018
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pisinformation

When provided with facts, the second party throws logic out the window and pisses on your statement with feelings.
I can't debate with him. He screams and turns my well thought out statement into pisinformation.
by Branden Riddle February 24, 2021
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misinformation

Misinformation refers to content explaining something false or incorrect. Some of the most known places for Misinformation are Twitter, Facebook and forums like Quora.
"Moon landing is fake"

No, it's real! This is misinformation.
by SlammerGaming0 October 21, 2023
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Misinformation

People often already know the source of misinformation, where it's coming from. Usually the same people claiming to fight it and reveal the source of it are the ones trying to defer suspicion from themselves and what they are doing to somewhere else, to make it look like it's coming from somewhere or someone else.
Misinformation is false by nature, which is why people don't need explained to them what is true and what is false. They can determine that for themselves.
by The Original Agahnim July 28, 2021
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Russian disinformation

A slang term used be the left, particularly the American left, which means “bad for us politically”
Person 1: Did you hear about Hunter Biden’s laptop
Person 2: That is Russian disinformation
by Liberal#576 April 11, 2022
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collateral misinformation

When someone alters a Wikipedia article to win a specific argument, anyone who reads the false article before the "error" is corrected suffers from collateral misinformation.
I changed the scientific classification of red foxes last night in order to win an debate with Judy. I hope some stupid High School student doesn't suffer from collateral misinformation.
by wildefox July 25, 2008
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misinformation laundering

The legitimization of false or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceive, by means of citing other sources complicit in the propagation of misinformation.
Man, Facebook blames everything bad on one color of people, citing articles from Google, a book about that color of people being ‘fragile’, and excerpts from a “theory” from a professor who says that color
of people have been like that since 1619… I smell misinformation laundering.
by VicSage July 5, 2021
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