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Misinformation might be created and spread with malicious intent for reasons such as causing anxiety or deceiving audiences. [136] Rumors created with or without malicious intent may be unknowingly shared by users. [citation needed] People may know what the scientific community has proved as a fact, and still refuse to accept it as such. [140]
Disinformation is misleading content deliberately spread to deceive people, [1] [2] or to secure economic or political gain and which may cause public harm. [3] Disinformation is an orchestrated adversarial activity in which actors employ strategic deceptions and media manipulation tactics to advance political, military, or commercial goals. [ 4 ]
According to Derakhshan, examples of malinformation can include "revenge porn, where the change of context from private to public is the sign of malicious intent", or providing false information about where and when a photograph was taken in order to mislead the viewer [3] (the picture is real, but the meta-information and its context is changed).
The lawsuit accuses a teacher of starting and spreading a false sexual rumor about the student earlier this year, according to court records. Student sues Lynden School District, educators for ...
Damaging victim's reputations with others by spreading rumors and gossiping about the victim, or humiliating them in front of others. Withdrawing attention and friendship. Psychological manipulation and coercion can also be considered as a type of relational aggression.
Fake news has become increasingly prevalent over the last few years, with over 100 misleading articles and rumors spread regarding the 2016 United States presidential election alone. [18] These fake news articles tend to come from satirical news websites or individual websites with an incentive to propagate false information, either as ...
Among them: People ignoring others, sending “not nice” emails to an employee and copying everybody, spreading rumors, gossiping, eye rolling in meetings, taking credit for the work of others ...
Examples include: [51] [52] spreading malicious rumors about people, "ganging up" on others (this could also be considered physical bullying), ignoring people (e.g. the silent treatment or pretending the victim is non-existent), provoking others, belittling or saying hurtful things (which are also forms of verbal bullying). [53]