once this was called lying. now its called 'disinformation;

Since the 2016 election, prominent Democrats such as Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and John Kerry have increasingly lamented what they characterize as a dangerous proliferation of “misinformation” and “disinformation” in the public forum.

The word “misinformation” is usually defined as erroneous or partly erroneous information resulting from unintentional human error.

The Online Etymology Dictionary defines “disinformation” as follows:

The dissemination of deliberately false information, esp. when supplied by a government or its agent to a foreign power or to the media, with the intention of influencing the policies or opinions of those who receive it" [OED], 1955, from Russian dezinformatsiya (1949), which is said to be from French désinformation, but the French word is not as old as the Russian one.

Defector Ion Mihai Pacepa—a former senior official in the Romanian secret police—claimed that Joseph Stalin coined the term, giving it a French-sounding name to claim it had a Western origin.........more......