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Groups often produce '''disinformationDisinformation''' to influence opinions related to their interests. Disinformation is an act of misinforming, or deceptively communicating false knowledge or faulty intelligence. Disinformation is, simply, a manipulation aimed at influencimg the audience. Disinformation is, usually, a deliberately misleading and deceptive type of information announced publicly (or, othertimes, leaked privately) by a corporation, government, or (especially) by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion , corporation or other entity for the purpose of influencing opinions or a government in another nationperceptions.
The aim Unlike [[misinformation]], which is also a form of wrong information, disinformation is, usually, that the recipient produced by people who ''intend'' to take the deceive their audience. A group might plant disinformation andin reports, thusin press releases, is influenced to take the propagandist's desired direction. Through a combination of several disinformation messages makes up a system that has the power to influence opinions. Disinformation is usually launched in multiple informational outletspublic statements or in practically any other routine, of which is composed of several unrelated itemsoccasional or unusual communique.
Disinformation can take the form of news, advicealso be leaked, or knowledge, communicated by others or provide covertly released to a source who can be trusted to an investigationrepeat the false information. A common disinformation tactic is to mix truth, half-truths, and lies. Th most sucussful method to propagate disinformation is Disinformants sometimes seek to gain the confidence of the recipient, their audience through emotional appeals or by appealing to the subjects emotions, and using semi-neutral language interlaced with threads of disinformation.
"Disinformation does not correspond equally with is a fact of life in politics. Those who practice politics for a living call it "wrongspin." information, as "wrongHonest people call it lying through your teeth." information does not have the implicit intent to deceive the audience of the messageSays Doug Thompson [http://www. "Wrong" information occurs by accident, whereas disinformation is represented as being a true (while being patently false)capitolhillblue. Also, the individual or organization presenting the disinformation understands that the informations is incorrectcom/artman/publish/article_4623.
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== External links ==
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/3030923.stm French ambassador to US complains about disinformation]
When "scientists" and such refer to statistics that indicate people live longer lives than they did in past times, often infant mortality rates are not taken into consideration.
High infant mortality rates can skew the statistical data in a misleading way. Yes, these statistics are "accurate," but they create a false picture of the truth about reasonable life span expectancies, and the causes and effects going into this.
Today, all sorts of heroic efforts are made to enable babies (particularly ones born prematurely) to survive. In the past, they would have died. It is nice that these babies can now be saved, but infant mortality rates will always have a certain skewing effect on the entire facts involved in longevity rates.
It has been said that people live longer today than they did in the past because of the use of pharmaceutical drugs. While this could be true IN SOME INDIVIDUAL CASES, it is also true that if a longevity rate is only 30 or 40 years (in some segment of time and place history), this longevity rate could have been cut in half (or so) simply by a very high infant mortality rate.
Please just remember this the next time you hear the pharmaceutical companies take credit for longer life spans. This is only so true and partly because of the skewing effects of infant mortality rates.
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Similarly, [[pharmaceutical companies]] take credit for an increased number of cures for childhood cancer; without mentioning the accelerating increase in number of childhood cancer victims. Their cure rate, or percentage cured, may in fact be falling due to the increasing incidence rate.
[[Category:Propaganda techniques]]
