Disinformation facts for kids

Disinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread on purpose and is intended to mislead. It may include the handing out of forged documents, manuscripts, and photographs, or propagation of malicious rumors and fabricated intelligence. Quite often this word is used in context of a government or large organisation trying to fool a rival.

Images for kids

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  Former Romanian secret police senior official Ion Mihai Pacepa exposed disinformation history in his book Disinformation (2013).

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  Chief of Russian foreign intelligence Yevgeny Primakov confirmed in 1992 that Operation INFEKTION was a disinformation campaign to make the world believe that the United States had invented AIDS.

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  How Disinformation Can Be Spread, explanation by U.S. Defense Department (2001)

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  A framework for how disinformation spreads in social media.

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In Spanish: Desinformación para niños