"Oracle has apparently felt the need to employ back-alley tactics, subterfuge, and disinformation in order to achieve its aims, " he added.

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Careful consideration of these issues is likely to help navigate through the labyrinth of misinformation and disinformation these types of studies are particularly prone to generating.

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E-mails leaked in 2010 described how a group of technology and security firms cooked up a plan to spy on and feed disinformation to Chamber Watch and discussed it with the Chamber's law firm.

ECONOMIST: Corporate lobbying

This is an example of using a red herring and straw man disinformation.

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Second, the leaders of this Task Force, Mr. Kathwari and Secretary Martin, will be given an opportunity to provide such disinformation to the Congress when they testify this morning before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

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But on future occasions, before you publish such disinformation, please call me and give me the opportunity to defend my name and my professional work in advance.

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Still, we keep hearing that scientists who challenge claims that our planet is on fire fueled by fossil energy are lackeys of a heavily-funded disinformation campaign underwritten by Big Oil, Big Coal, and other Big Spenders.

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It seems we keep hearing that scientists who challenge claims that our planet is on fire fueled by fossil energy are lackeys of a heavily funded disinformation campaign underwritten by Big Oil, Big Coal, and other Big Spenders.

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Unfortunately for Rehab, he is only partially correct and any campaign that claims that the term Jihad only means an internal, personal struggle amounts to disinformation.

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