disinformation

English

WOTD – 18 September 2015

Etymology

1955. From dis- +‎ information, calqued from Russian дезинформа́ция (dezinformácija), a word coined by Joseph Stalin c. 1923 (see the Wikipedia article). Doublet of dezinformatsiya.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsɪnfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪsˌɪnfɚˈmeɪʃən/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

disinformation (usually uncountable, plural disinformations)

1. False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead.
2. Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content. Intentionally created conspiracy theories or rumors.
   • 2019, “Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder”, in Scientific American‎^[1]:

Related terms

• dezinformatsiya
• disinform
• malinformation

Translations

intentionally false information

• Arabic: مَعْلُومَات مُضَلِّلَة‎ f pl (maʿlūmāt muḍallila)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: дэзінфармацыя f (dezinfarmacyja)
• Bulgarian: дезинформа́ция f (dezinformácija)
• Catalan: desinformació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 假情報, 假情报 (jiǎqíngbào), 訛傳 (zh), 讹传 (zh) (échuán), 謊報 (zh), 谎报 (zh) (huǎngbào)

• Czech: dezinformace (cs) f
• Danish: misinformation c
• Dutch: desinformatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: desinformatsiooni
• Finnish: disinformaatio (fi), harhatiedotus
• French: désinformation (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Desinformation (de) f
• Greek: παραπληροφόρηση (el) f (paraplirofórisi)
• Hebrew: דיסאינפורמציה‎ (he) f
• Hungarian: dezinformáció, félrevezetés (hu)
• Irish: bréagaisnéis f, bréageolas m
• Italian: disinformazione (it) f, controinformazione f, misinformazione (it) f
• Japanese: 偽情報 (にせじょうほう, nisejōhō), 誤報 (ごほう, gohō)

• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: dezinformacija ?
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: desinformasjon m

  Nynorsk: desinformasjon m

• Polish: dezinformacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: desinformação f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: дезинформа́ция (ru) f (dezinformácija), де́за (ru) f (déza) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дезинформа́ција f

  Roman: dezinformácija (sh) f

• Slovak: dezinformácia f
• Slovene: dezinformácija f
• Spanish: desinformación (es) f
• Swedish: desinformation (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: dezenformasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: дезінформа́ція f (dezinformácija)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• misinformation
• propaganda