teadlikult eksitava või valeinformatsiooni levitamine eesmärgiga kahju teha
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all forms of false, inaccurate, or misleading information designed, presented and promoted to intentionally cause public harm or for profit
verifiably false or misleading information that is created, presented and disseminated for economic gain or to intentionally deceive the public, and may cause public harm
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Vt ka kirje „misinformation - eksiteave“. [30.01.2019]
“Disinformation” is the intentional dissemination of information that is wholly or partly false. It differs from “misinformation,” which is unintentional.
Inglise keeleruumis käib sõna disinformation paaris sarnase sõnaga misinformation, mille definitsioonis eristab kahte mõistet väärinfo levitaja teadlikkus. Disinformationi puhul levitatakse väärinfot teadlikult, misinformationi puhul teadmatusest. ...
Nii, nagu pole küberrünnakute vastu võimalik saada riigisektoril, erasektoril ega meedial igaühel omaette toimetades, nii ei saa ka teabepesu ja desinfo rünnakutega võideldes ükski neist sektoritest üksinda edukas olla.
Disinformation is a powerful and inexpensive – and often economically profitable – tool of influence. To date, most known cases have involved written articles, sometimes complemented by authentic pictures or audiovisual content taken out of context. But new, affordable, and easy-to-use technology is now available to create false pictures and audiovisual content (so called "deep fakes"), offering more potent means for manipulating public opinion.
Problems of disinformation are deeply intertwined with the development of digital media. They are driven by actors — state or non-state political actors, for-profit actors, media, citizens, individually or in groups — and by manipulative uses of communication infrastructures that have been harnessed to produce, circulate and amplify disinformation on a larger scale than previously, often in new ways that are still poorly mapped and understood.
