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MISINFORMATION [18 records]

Record 1 2026-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Defence Planning and Military Doctrine
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
  • Emergency Management
OBS

Total defence is part of civil-military cooperation, but is limited to including mutual support and cooperation between the armed forces and civil society related to security policy crises and armed conflict.

CONT

One key concept is "total defence, "a whole-of-society approach to responding to threats ranging from armed conflict, to misinformation, humanitarian and environmental disasters, or infrastructure disruption.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrine militaire et planification de défense
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix
  • Gestion des urgences
DEF

[...] politique de défense et de sécurité qui combine les forces militaires avec une structure de défense civile, et qui tente de lier l’économie civile et une infrastructure politique dans la planification de la défense et de la sécurité nationale.

CONT

Un concept important est celui de «défense totale», une approche pansociétale de la réponse aux menaces, telles que les conflits armés, la désinformation, les crises humanitaires, les catastrophes environnementales ou les perturbations d'infrastructures.

Spanish

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Record 2 2026-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology of Communication
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

... misinformation and disinformation can be distinguished based on intent. If a piece of false or misleading information is spread deliberately, it is considered disinformation. If a piece of false or misleading information is spread without knowledge of its falsehood, it is considered misinformation. Identifying MIDI can be difficult... Any policy must account for the need to balance freedom of expression against the harms caused by MIDI.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie de la communication
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

[...] dans le monde numérique et interconnecté d'aujourd'hui, la diffusion de la mésinformation et de la désinformation constitue une menace grave pour les éléments fondamentaux de nos sociétés. Leur prolifération rapide sape la confiance dans les institutions et les élections, alimente les divisions sociétales et met en péril les initiatives de santé publique, menaçant ainsi le tissu même de la démocratie et de la prise de décision éclairée.

OBS

La mésinformation et la désinformation sont des formes de fausse information qui peuvent entraîner des préjudices mineurs ou majeurs.

Spanish

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Record 3 2026-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology of Communication
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

MDM can be identified as three main forms of informational activity that can cause minor or major harm :misinformation refers to false information that is not intended to cause harm; disinformation refers to false information that is intended to manipulate, cause damage and guide people, organizations and countries in the wrong direction; malinformation refers to information that stems from the truth but is often exaggerated in a way that misleads and causes potential harm.

Key term(s)
  • misinformation, disinformation and mal-information

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie de la communication
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

La mésinformation, la désinformation et la malinformation sont des formes de fausse information qui peuvent entraîner des préjudices mineurs ou majeurs. Elles peuvent porter atteinte aux droits de la personne et avoir des répercussions négatives sur les personnes, les groupes et la société, notamment lorsqu'elles sont utilisées pour manipuler, tromper ou nuire.

Key term(s)
  • mésinformation, désinformation et mal-information

Spanish

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Record 4 2026-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Information Theory
CONT

Prebunking is the process of debunking lies, tactics or sources before they strike. Its proponents describe it as a sort of vaccine for the mind that strengthens people's ability to think critically and makes them immune to most misinformation or propaganda. Like with vaccines, it is not necessary to immunize everybody : when prebunking reaches a critical threshold of the susceptible population, a phenomenon similar to herd immunity takes place : immune individuals do not repeat or deny false claims outright, preventing their spread.

Key term(s)
  • pre-bunking

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Théorie de l'information
DEF

Approche proactive consistant à préparer le public avant exposition à la désinformation, en fournissant preuves et contexte pour mieux repérer et rejeter les fausses informations.

Key term(s)
  • prédémystification

Spanish

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Record 5 2025-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology of Communication
DEF

[Accidentally] incorrect or misleading information.

CONT

The spread of misinformation is often naive and typically occurs when content is misunderstood, there is little time to verify the information, or when information is obtained from unreliable sources.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie de la communication
DEF

Information fausse due à l'ignorance ou à la distraction, sans intention de tromper.

CONT

Il faut éviter de confondre mésinformation et désinformation. La mésinformation est une information innocemment fausse, causée par l'ignorance ou la distraction, tandis que la désinformation est intentionnelle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicología de la comunicación
DEF

Información falsa que se difunde debido a ignorancia o distracción, sin intención de engañar.

OBS

No confundir con desinformación.

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Record 6 2025-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Psychology of Communication
  • Internet and Telematics
OBS

The Working Group's mandate is to develop Guiding Principles that help foster greater exposure to diverse cultural content, information and news online. Exposure to diverse content should contribute to a healthier public discourse, greater social inclusion within society, bolster resilience to disinformation and misinformation, and increase our citizens’ ability to participate in democratic processes.

Key term(s)
  • Multistakeholder Working Group on Diversity of Content Online

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Psychologie de la communication
  • Internet et télématique
OBS

Le groupe de travail a pour mandat d'élaborer des principes directeurs qui visent à favoriser une plus grande exposition en ligne aux contenus culturels, à l'information et aux nouvelles diversifiés. L'exposition à divers contenus peut contribuer à un débat public plus sain et à une plus grande inclusion sociale, tout en rivalisant contre la désinformation et en favorisant une plus large participation démocratique.

Spanish

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Record 7 2024-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
  • Statistical Surveys
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Psychology of Communication
DEF

... a multi-wave survey examining the role and impact of public trust and misinformation across policy priorities such as public health, climate action, and immigration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Psychologie de la communication
DEF

[...] enquête en plusieurs vagues examinant le rôle et l'impact de la confiance du public et de la mésinformation sur des priorités politiques telles que la santé publique, les changements climatiques et l'immigration.

Spanish

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Record 8 2024-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

A prompt injection is a type of cyberattack against large language models(LLMs). Hackers disguise malicious inputs as legitimate prompts, manipulating generative AI systems(GenAI) into leaking sensitive data, spreading misinformation, or worse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

L'infiltration de requête, dans laquelle des robots conversationnels accessibles au public sont manipulés de façon à en exploiter les failles, représente un autre risque important de cybersécurité. Les infiltrations de requête peuvent compromettre l'intégrité des réponses des robots conversationnels et entraîner la divulgation de renseignements sensibles, ce qui représente une menace réelle à la protection des renseignements personnels des utilisateurs et à la sécurité des données.

OBS

infiltration de requête : désignation proposée par l'Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) en 2023. »

Key term(s)
  • attaque par infiltration de requêtes
  • infiltration de requêtes

Spanish

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Record 9 2023-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
  • Climate Change
CONT

Note that misinformation is not associated with a particular ideological position in the climate debate. Alongside climate denial, "climate alarmism" could also be perceived as misinformation...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
  • Changements climatiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comportamiento humano
  • Cambio climático
CONT

El alarmismo climático está haciendo las veces de una nueva religión.

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Record 10 2022-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of Medicine
  • Sociology of Women
CONT

Specialists in sexual and reproductive health say that gynecological violence is a form of violence with many varied expressions, from unnecessary procedures, the pathologization of physiological processes, medical misinformation and maltreatment, aggressive practices that provoke harm and injuries, and even inappropriate and violating comments... all of which are experienced during gynecological care...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie de la médecine
  • Sociologie des femmes
CONT

Mais pour la quasi-totalité des personnes interrogées, les violences gynécologiques ne se limitaient pas à des violences physiques. Il y avait également la violence psychique liée au comportement, à l'attitude des soignant·e·s.

Spanish

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Record 11 2019-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

A unit of measure of processing performance equal to one million instructions per second.

OBS

MIPS was a popular rating before computers reached gigahertz speeds, but MIPS rates were never uniform. Some were best-case mixes while others were averages... As a result, MIPS has been called "MisInformation to Promote Sales" as well as "Meaningless Interpretation of Processor Speed. "

OBS

millions of instructions per second; MIPS: designations and definition standardized by ISO in collaboration with the International Electrotechnical Commission; designations standardized by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Unité de mesure de la puissance d'un ordinateur, égale à un million d'instructions par seconde.

OBS

MIPS : désignation et définition normalisées par l'ISO en collaboration avec la Commission électrotechnique internationale; désignation normalisée par l'Association canadienne de normalisation (CSA) et reproduites avec son autorisation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medición y análisis (Ciencias)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
DEF

Promedio de ejecución de instrucciones en una unidad central de procesamiento.

Key term(s)
  • un millón de instrucciones por segundo
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Record 12 2013-07-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medication
  • Mental Disorders
CONT

MAOIs [monoamine oxidase inhibitors] tend to be underutilized in clinical practice, due in part to misinformation and mythology about their dietary and drug interactions. The new class of reversible monoamine oxidase inhibitors(RIMAs) has shown efficacy in depression, with safety and tolerability comparable to SSRIs [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médicaments
  • Troubles mentaux
CONT

On a rapporté des réactions graves, dont certaines ont été fatales, chez des patients ayant reçu [du] chlorhydrate de sertraline ([zoloft]) en association avec un inhibiteur de la monoamine oxydase (IMAO), y compris avec la sélégiline, un IMAO sélectif, le moclobémide, un IMAO réversible ou IRMAO (inhibiteur réversible de la monoamine oxydase) et le linézolide, un antibiotique et un IRMAO non sélectif.

Spanish

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Record 13 2008-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Telecommunications Transmission
DEF

A type of cryptography that allows an encrypted text to be decrypted in two or more ways, depending on which decryption key is used.

OBS

Deniable encryption is sometimes used for misinformation purposes when the sender anticipates, or even encourages, interception of a communication.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Seguridad de IT
  • Transmisión (Telecomunicaciones)
CONT

Una aplicación de esta técnica consiste en emplearla como un sistema de "Deniable Encryption", donde se multiplexan dos documentos, siendo uno la "paja" del otro. De esta forma, en caso de problemas, bastará con proporcionar la clave de la "paja", lo que descifrará un documento inocuo.

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Record 14 1999-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Problems
CONT

The objective of this campaign is to raise awareness that this kind of discrimination, otherwise known as poor-bashing, exists and to point out that much of the poor-bashing is based on myths and misinformation about low income Canadians. NAPO [National Anti-Poverty Organization] would like poor-bashing to be regarded as unacceptable in the same way that sexism and racism is now regarded as unacceptable.

OBS

Source: National Anti-Poverty Organization.

Key term(s)
  • poor bashing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Problèmes sociaux

Spanish

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Record 15 1996-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Group Dynamics
  • Clinical Psychology
DEF

A method of developing a fear in which fear is increased after receiving information(or misinformation) that a particular object or situation is dangerous. Examples include developing a fear of flying after reading about airplane accidents or developing a fear of heights after being told repeatedly that high situations are dangerous.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dynamique des groupes
  • Psychologie clinique

Spanish

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Record 16 1993-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Individuals who do not look upon obesity as an illness and are not intent on finding its cure. Original scripts dramatizing the experience of growing up overweight and female in America are performed. Members are determined to fight misinformation and stereotypes about obesity within a theatrical and entertaining medium.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 17 1988-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Air Traffic Control
CONT

It is this interference that produces "garbling" and other misinformation, such as "track wander", where a controller's display shows false bearings, or "split plots", where one aircraft registers as two.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Circulation et trafic aériens

Spanish

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Record 18 1987-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Air Traffic Control
CONT

It is this interference that produces "garbling" and other misinformation, such as "track wander", where a controller's display shows false bearings, or "split plots", where one aircraft registers as two.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Circulation et trafic aériens

Spanish

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