misapprehension

Fox and Musk have gotten away with spreading disinformation because of a self-serving misapprehension of the political speech doctrine: The First Amendment protects ‘core political speech’ above all other forms of expression.

"It would appear that the BBC team is prepared to tarnish or ruin the reputation of every senior person who worked at Harrods during Mr Al Fayed’s ownership, under the serious and damaging misapprehension that of course they must have known."

Some Angelenos labor under the misapprehension that on New Year’s Eve you can legally shoot a gun in the air.

Instead we’re contending with the fallout of another strongman’s disastrous misapprehension of his enemies.

Identification of a tonsil-like organ in fish also helps correct a misapprehension about their immune system, Dishaw says.