misinform

“Bad actors are using A.I.-generated voices in unsolicited robocalls to extort vulnerable family members, imitate celebrities and misinform voters.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 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

"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

He can enlighten or misinform, persuade or threaten, reward or punish.

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart

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

Q: Do you think social media ever misinforms about what it’s like to live this way?

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 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

And while he's glad to see it reach a wider audience, he worries the way it is interpreted can be "outdated, misinformed and, in the worst case, harmful."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

“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

Ellemann-Jensen has apologized for misinforming parliament over a rushed Israeli arms deal to replace Denmark’s howitzers that were donated to Ukraine in January.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 22, 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

Besides which she had more than enough to do in caring for her own house, mending my father’s clothes and misinforming the public as to Post Office regulations.

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)