What's the difference between misinformation and propaganda?

Misinformation


Definition:

  • (n.) Untrue or incorrect information.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
  • (2) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
  • (3) The subjects' responses revealed their lack of information as well as a great deal of misinformation.
  • (4) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (5) Twenty of the girls knew how conception occurs and 24 knew about modern methods of contraception, although none was used; many of them were misinformed.
  • (6) Nutrition misinformation wastes billions of dollars every year but the greatest harm occurs when needed medical intervention is delayed or ignored.
  • (7) The most important finding was the considerable misinformation about and noncompliance with malaria prophylaxis.
  • (8) A total of 376 (25.1%) questionnaires were filled out incorrectly and 63 of these (16.8%) had major misinformation about medical history.
  • (9) Their refusal to condemn him reinforces myths and misinformation about rape – they don't seem to understand that the law is very clear that if someone is too drunk or otherwise incapacitated to consent, it is rape."
  • (10) Yet by reassuring the public that things aren't too bad, Monbiot and others at best misinform, and at worst misrepresent or distort, the scientific evidence of the harmful effects of radiation exposure – and they play a predictable shoot-the-messenger game in the process.
  • (11) He acknowledged there had been "failures" and that there was "misinformation and misunderstanding" surrounding the bill.
  • (12) Nutrition knowledge and misinformation, supplement use, and sources of nutrition information were also investigated.
  • (13) "As global action on climate change deepens, propaganda aimed at misinforming the public about climate change, and so blunting any action, increases."
  • (14) Blair is already facing a backlash from Conservative ministers and some on the remain side for arguing that people were misinformed when they voted for Brexit.
  • (15) These highly fragmented replied with the characteristics of misinformation about AIDS are also compatible with situations that could carry risks for the laborers.
  • (16) All that said, there are still some basic facts to contend with that do suggest many Republican voters believe things that are either misinformed or absurd or both.
  • (17) Nevertheless, social media is open to misinformation, baseless rumours, hate speech and conspiracy theories.
  • (18) They point to Education for health as a means for health professionals to prevent problems arising from misinformation to people under medical attendance.
  • (19) Earlier on Tuesday, one of the leading legislative critics of the NSA's bulk surveillance on Americans' phone records, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, attacked both the surveillance and what he described as a "culture of misinformation" by administration and intelligence officials about it.
  • (20) From the very nature of monitoring physiological quantities there will be much misinformation or 'noise' superimposed on the raw signal obtained from the patient.

Propaganda


Definition:

  • (n.) A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.
  • (n.) The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.
  • (n.) Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
  • (2) Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence Read more “The law against gay propaganda legitimised violence against LGBT people, and they now are banning street actions under it,” Klimova said.
  • (3) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (4) North Korea has produced tons of propaganda films that portray America’s destruction.
  • (5) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
  • (6) When war broke out he was there again, scribbling anti-British propaganda for Coughlin's journal.
  • (7) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
  • (8) The Isis propaganda war: a hi-tech media jihad Read more Isis is innovative.
  • (9) Under Russia's anti-gay propaganda law, anyone promoting "non-traditional sexual relations" to minors face fines of up to 5,000 roubles (£100), while businesses and schools could get fines up to 500,000 roubles (£10,000).
  • (10) It would also be a propaganda victory for Moscow, which launched a campaign to safeguard Assad’s rule last October.
  • (11) The first time I heard about legislation banning " homosexual propaganda ", I thought it was funny.
  • (12) The Iraqi government needs to “mock and disprove” Islamic State’s online propaganda more effectively and more quickly Malcolm Turnbull has told an elite audience in Washington, saying he will raise the problem when he meets US president Barack Obama.
  • (13) In the letter, Gadahn – who the White House has announced was killed in a US drone stike in January – told the al-Qaida leader that Benjamin Franklin had never been a president of the United States and warned that if he or Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s deputy, made the mistake in propaganda speeches, their credibility would suffer.
  • (14) The tone of Kim’s comments, which sought to glorify him and justify the test, is typical of state media propaganda.
  • (15) South Korea has said it will resume the cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war, as fellow US ally Japan condemned North Korea’s claim to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb as a “serious threat” to its national security.
  • (16) I, along with many others, am tired of this toxic propaganda.
  • (17) Bensouda, 50, who has served as Moreno-Ocampo's deputy, added: "With due respect, what offends me most when I hear criticisms about the so-called African bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals and to forget about the millions of anonymous people that suffer from these crimes … because all the victims are African victims.
  • (18) But those who know the Londoner – who was born Siddhartha Dhar and changed his name after converting from Hinduism to Islam – struggle to agree on whether he can be identified as Isis’s latest propaganda figure.
  • (19) Jared Genser Germany went public with its anger about Beijing’s handling of Liu’s case on Monday, accusing Chinese security services of leaking surveillance footage of Liu being visited by a German doctor in order to bolster a propaganda campaign pushing the idea that the dissident was too ill to be evacuated from China.
  • (20) According to a secret cable titled "David Letterman: Agent of Influence", they have been proving more effective than Washington's main propaganda tool, the US-funded al-Hurra TV news channel.