DISINFORMATION Synonyms

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• a change for the worse

• a shape resulting from distortion

• an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

• a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• writing in a fictional form

• the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• a false statement

• the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

• the quality of being inaccurate and having errors

• information that is incorrect

• information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause