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disinformation (spec. language that is intentionally ambiguous or misleading or double-talk, esp. for political purposes) n. newspeak

Sunday, February 21, 2021 by Peter Leave a Comment

[This word comes from George Orwell’s novel, 1984.]  The American Petroleum Institute established, in an admirable flourish of newspeak, a lobbying organization called the Global Climate Coalition. It was joined  by trade associations including the coal, electric grid and automobile industries. (Nathaniel Rich, “Losing Earth,” The New York Times, 08/01/2018.)

This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for misinformation, propaganda, double-talk, half-truth, deception, misleading, ambiguous, or  falsehood

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