misinform
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The British Poultry Council, which represents suppliers, processors and farmers, added that "drawing comparison between formal inspection and rigorous procedure versus a shop-shelf experiment has potential to mislead and misinform".
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024
“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
He accused Media Matters of creating an alternative account designed to "misinform advertisers" about their posts.
From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2023
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
“For example, the use of ‘white’ to describe ancient Greeks is sloppy and misinforms a wide audience; ancient Greeks were not white,” she says.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2018
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
His repost was criticised at the time by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, who accused Polanski of amplifying "inaccurate and misinformed commentary" in a letter published by the force.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
Well-meaning but misinformed people think animals in the wild are “happy” because they are “free”.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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Seattle police officers will be limited in using ruses — a tactic of deliberately misinforming the public — starting Wednesday, following a three-year push to create a policy.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
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
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