How to Use disinformation in a Sentence

disinformation

noun
  • The government used disinformation to gain support for the policy.
  • There was a ton of disinformation surrounding why the floor was shut down.
    — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • One viral post isn’t enough, and disinformation thrives on speed.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The pace of disinformation has not kept only the fact checkers busy.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • But there were questions from the start about how online disinformation had skewed the results.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The government says that such disinformation has spurred protests against it.
    — CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The disinformation war has now moved well past that initial stage, but continues apace.
    — Vera Bergengruen, Time, 26 Feb. 2022
  • This is not to say that Brazil was immune to disinformation campaigns.
    — Jessica A.j. Rich, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
  • And in a rush to do just that, a lot of misconceptions and disinformation have made their way through the pipeline.
    — Francis Dinha, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And now that's joined by the anti-science disinformation empire that becomes kind of the third leg of this.
    — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Will it be used to spread and disseminate fear and disinformation?
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Mis- and disinformation are ranked second, and extreme weather events are ranked fourth, among the most severe risks over the next two years.
    — Michael Chertoff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026
  • This piggybacking of false claims atop true ones is a stock disinformation tactic.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Yet that hasn't stopped it from taking off among patients influenced by disinformation.
    — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 2 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Young became the first major artist to demand his own music be pulled from the streaming service to protest the disinformation.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Most of the disinformation shared with the participants was coming from strangers, the report said.
    — Cristina Corujo, Sheena Samu, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • This is a dangerous moment for our nation as disinformation and lies replace facts.
    — Carlos Martinez, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Russia’s recent attempts to spread disinformation have not yet found great success in the West.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • It can hardly be disputed that science and medicine today are awash in disinformation.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The efforts are poised to fuel disinformation and anger about the 2020 results for years to come.
    — Nicholas Riccardi, ajc, 30 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • To choose to avoid uncomfortable truths only fuels the distrust that feeds the fire of disinformation.
    — Alyona Minkovski, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 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

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