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Descriptor English: Disinformation
Descriptor Spanish: Desinformación
Descriptor desinformación
Entry term(s) información falsa
noticias falsas
Scope note: Información falsa que se difunde deliberadamente y, a menudo, de forma encubierta para influir en la opinión pública u ocultar la verdad. (Traducción libre del original: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disinformation).
Descriptor Portuguese: Desinformação
Descriptor French: Désinformation
Entry term(s): Fake News
News, Fake
Tree number(s): F01.145.813.157.500
L01.143.790.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000087862
Scope note: False information deliberately and often covertly spread in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disinformation)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 2022
History Note: 2022
DeCS ID: 59656
Unique ID: D000087862
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Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2021/07/06
Disinformation - Preferred
Concept UI M000739227
Scope note False information deliberately and often covertly spread in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disinformation)
Preferred term Disinformation
Entry term(s) Fake News
News, Fake



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