as in lie
information that is not completely true or accurate
a company accused of providing misinformation to its shareholders
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Recent Examples of misinformation
Related article Spotify makes public platform rules that cover Covid-19 misinformation.
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Earlier this year, when Grok stopped mentioning Musk or Donald Trump as the biggest sources of misinformation on X, a co-founder of xAI attributed the problem to a single employee acting without the company’s permission.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Nutrition experts weigh in on how the health aims of this latest teen empowerment trend are getting overshadowed by some harmful misinformation.
—Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 14 May 2025
But in a world where health misinformation can make its purveyors into stars—and wealthy ones, at that—retribution is often brief.
—Charlotte Lytton, Time, 13 May 2025
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Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Earlier this year, when Grok stopped mentioning Musk or Donald Trump as the biggest sources of misinformation on X, a co-founder of xAI attributed the problem to a single employee acting without the company’s permission.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 15 May 2025
Nutrition experts weigh in on how the health aims of this latest teen empowerment trend are getting overshadowed by some harmful misinformation.
—Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 14 May 2025
But in a world where health misinformation can make its purveyors into stars—and wealthy ones, at that—retribution is often brief.
—Charlotte Lytton, Time, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misinformation
Noun
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But to see American history as simply a narrative of heroism would be a lie unbecoming a great nation.—
James T. Kloppenberg,
Time,
28 May 2025
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Like it or not, businesses and thought leaders operate in an information ecosystem where willful lies and concocted conspiracies are amplified by algorithms.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
Noun
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The libel lawsuit was settled within weeks, CNN reported, with the website issuing a retraction and acknowledging that Kardashian had in fact been robbed at gunpoint.—
Christie D’Zurilla,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2025
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In December, Baldoni sued The New York Times for libel following the newspaper’s publication of an article detailing Lively’s accusations.—
Chloe Melas,
NBC news,
10 May 2025
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“Misinformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misinformation. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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