Examples of malinformation include phishing, catfishing, doxing, swatting and revenge porn

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinformation

https://web.archive.org/web/20230116172627/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinformation

Whenever the identity of someone who was trying to keep their identity secret so they would not lose their job is spread that is malinformation but you do not here the government complaining about that