Disinformation

Disinformation is false or misleading information deliberately spread to deceive people, or to secure economic or political gain and which may cause public harm. Disinformation is an orchestrated adversarial activity in which actors employ strategic deceptions and media manipulation tactics to advance political, military, or commercial goals. Disinformation is implemented through coordinated campaigns that "weaponize multiple rhetorical strategies and forms of knowing—including not only falsehoods but also truths, half-truths, and value judgements—to exploit and amplify culture wars and other

upright=1.3|thumb|The Dreadnought hoax|Dreadnought hoaxers in Abyssinian [[regalia; the bearded figure on the far left is the writer Virginia Woolf.]] A hoax (: hoaxes) is a widely publicised falsehood created to deceive its audience with false and often astonishing information, with the either malicious or humorous intent of causing shock and interest in as many people as possible.

form of indirect warfare

confident unjustified claim by an AI

American think tank

European anti-disinformation group

contamination of information supply with irrelevant, redundant, unsolicited and low-value information

unfair and deceptive loan origination

propaganda technique

manipulation of online digital technology for commercial, social, or political purposes

fact-checking feature on X, formerly Twitter

Transvestigation (a portmanteau of transgender and investigation) is a conspiracy theory that asserts that many celebrities and other prominent individuals are transgender (or, conversely, that some openly transgender celebrities are cisgender). Proponents claim to be able to determine the assigned sex of individuals, primarily through photographic and video evidence. The methods used by "transvestigators" are subject to pareidolia and confirmation bias.

propaganda tactic

Swiss intelligence analyst, military officer, intelligence and terrorism expert

state body of Ukraine

tobacco industry marketing and political strategy to protect revenues in the face of evidence linking smoking and serious diseases