misinform

“Bad actors are using AI-generated voices in unsolicited robocalls to extort vulnerable family members, imitate celebrities, and misinform voters,” the agency’s chairwoman, Jessica Rosenworcel, said in a news release.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

It said that “nobody is allowed to terrorize and misinform the public” on public health issues.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

"Media Matters created an alternate account and curated the posts and advertising appearing on the account's timeline to misinform advertisers about the placement of their posts."

From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2023

“It loses credibility, but it doesn’t misinform voters. The problem is that today it’s always being presented as an absolute truth.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

To be sure, it was more than a year since she had heard of those lovely things, but she had a good memory, and would certainly not misinform him lightly.

From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

While we appreciate Seattle Times coverage of priorities such as public safety, lumping all nine independently elected individuals together as “the council” misinforms readers and ignores the diverse views of our local legislative branch.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2023

Mozilla senior director of advocacy Brandy Guerkink says “YouTube needs to admit their algorithm is designed in a way that harms and misinforms people.”

From The Verge ● Jul. 7, 2021

Once absorbed into received knowledge, such research misinforms subsequent scientific judgments.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 27, 2020

Enough running attention-grabbing news coverage that not only misinforms the public, but endangers the very community members you serve.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2019

In the final test, they provided much more detail about the specific flaws in the Oregon Petition, and how it misinforms people.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2017

The study states that the false belief has led "to negative consequences, including misinformed risk‐taking by those encountering snakes, unwarranted fear among snakebite victims, and inappropriate care delivered by misinformed or patient/family‐pressured medical professionals."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

Rama has pivoted between downplaying the protesters as misinformed and dismissing the movement as foreign-backed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Once a correspondent on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” he landed his own Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report,” where he played a bloviating, misinformed character, also named Stephen Colbert.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

Substack and podcasts, equally misinformed, are the new word hammers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

“So they’re lying about your—our history. That doesn’t mean they’re the enemy, it just means they’re a group of grossly misinformed people trying to . . . better the world. In an ill-advised way.”

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

Romanian officials are not explaining their previous vehement denials of the drone incident, although the defence minister is taking the blame for "misinforming" the country's president.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023

Glasscock also rejected the shareholders’ allegations that Ellison and Oracle CEO Safra Catz breached duties of loyalty by misinforming the special committee and concealing material facts regarding the acquisition.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

Beyond misinforming the public, its story distorted U.S. policy decisions and, most important, deepened patients’ suffering, which it cannot be said enough, is very real.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 6, 2023

We should make sure that dashboards offer more, not less, explanatory value than the misinforming narratives that vastly outnumber the charts and graphs published by states and newspapers.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2021

No better way even yet had been found of misinforming the unintelligent.

From Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson