disinformation

False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation.

Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content; intentionally created conspiracy theories or rumors.

Moreover, Trump’s use of obvious disinformation — the amateurish video he showed Ramaphosa, and his accompanying statements about the “over a thousand” killings of white farmers — to try and make his case has uprooted whatever U.S. credibility had survived over the last several months.

To use disinformation.

A country cannot disinformation its way out of fallen soldiers.