FUD

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FUD is an acronym standing for "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt", which refers to a technique wherein misleading but not wholly inaccurate information is spread in order to supplant accurate information, thus causing many people to reach a different conclusion than that which they would have reached in the presence of accurate information.