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Misinformation

Here are entered works on false or out-of-context information that is presented as fact regardless of an intent to deceive. Works on false or misleading information that is deliberately and/or covertly disseminated, often by an intelligence organization to confuse another nation's intelligence operations are entered under Disinformation

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

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• The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2023), ed. by Richard Rogers (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Tyrone the Double Dirty Rotten Cheater, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Green Casket, and Other Stories (London and Edunburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1890), by Mrs. Molesworth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Year With Nellie (London: Blackie and Son, n.d.), by A. S. Fenn
  • PDF at Florida
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• A Dog with a Bad Name, by Talbot Baines Reed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Eileen's Journey: History in Fairyland (London: J. Murray, 1899), by Ernest Arthur Jelf, illust. by Laura Troubridge (page images at Florida)
• Hector: A Story (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881), by Flora L. Shaw
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Brother Ben (anonymously published, but attributed in some catalogs to Sargent; London: Religious Tract Society, n.d.), by George E. Sargent (multiple formats at Google)
• Nelly: or, The Best Inheritance (Philadelphia and New York: American Sunday-School Union, c1867), by Lucy Ellen Guernsey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Black Giles, the Poacher; With Some Account of a Family Who Had Rather Live by Their Wits Than Their Work (London: Howard and Evans, ca. 1801), by Hannah More (multiple formats at archive.org)

• International Journal for Educational Integrity (full serial archives)

• Integrity and Conscience (Nomos XL; New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), ed. by Ian Shapiro and Robert Merrihew Adams (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Leader's Imperative: Ethics, Integrity, and Responsibility (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, c1980), ed. by J. Carl Ficarrotta (PDF at Purdue)
• Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Conduct, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Five Hundred Dollars: or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Red Plant (Philadelphia and New York: American Sunday-School Union, c1872), by Lucy Ellen Guernsey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• International Journal for Educational Integrity (full serial archives)

• Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML with commentary at emersoncentral.com)
• Acres of Diamonds, by Russell H. Conwell (Gutenberg text)
• On the Juche Idea, by Kim Chong Il (PDF in North Korea)

• Out for Business: or, Robert Frost's Strange Career (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1900), by Horatio Alger and Edward Stratemeyer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Box-Car Children (original version; Chicago and New York: Rand McNally and Co., c1924), by Gertrude Chandler Warner, illust. by Dorothy Lake Gregory (Gutenberg text)
• Julia Ried: Listening and Led (Cincinnati: J. G. Monfort, 1873), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (page images at Google)

• Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Illustrations of Lying, in All its Branches (from the second London edition; Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1829), by Amelia Opie (multiple formats at Google)
• A Lie Never Justifiable: A Study in Ethics (1856), by H. Clay Trumbull (Gutenberg text)
• Tales: Being Illustrations of Lying, in All its Branches (with other edition; this title Cooperstown, NY: H. and E. Phinney, 1840), by Amelia Opie (PDF at archive.org)

• Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1914), by A. E. W. Mason
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Lady Audley's Secret: An Original Version of Miss Braddon's Popular Novel (play script in two acts; London and New York: S. French, n.d.), by C. H. Hazlewood, contrib. by M. E. Braddon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Mutual Friend: A Comedy, in Four Acts (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879), by Harriette R. Shattuck, contrib. by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Picketing Hell: A Fictitious Narrative (New York: W. Malliet and Co., 1942), by A. Clayton Powell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lady Audley's Secret, by M. E. Braddon
  • Volume I: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume II: HTML at Indiana
  • Volume III: HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• Highways in Hiding (c1956), by George O. Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century, by Baroness Orczy (Gutenberg text)
• Jerry Junior (New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Silas Bradford's Boy (c1928), by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• Mr. Tasker's Gods (originally published 1925; reprinted 1972), by Theodore Francis Powys (multiple formats at Faded Page)
• Thais, by Anatole France, trans. by Robert B. Douglas (Gutenberg text)

• All Aboard: or, Life on the Lake, by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text)
• Ben Sylvester's Word (New York: General Prot. Episcopal S. S. Union and Church Book Society, 1859), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
• Ned Franks: or, The Christian's Panoply (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1866), by A. L. O. E. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, and Information Credibility (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Andrew J. Flanagin and Miriam J. Metzger (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Brian Rappert (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A True Story in Allegory, by Lottie L. Jarvis (HTML at timelesstruths.org)

• Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology (Criminal Science Monograph #1; 1915), by William Healy and Mary Tenney Healy (Gutenberg text)

• Timberland Tall Tales (Skowhegan, ME: Skowhegan Press, c1960), by Merle G. Chadbourne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy (2018), by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (HTML with commentary at NAP)

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