Biased government information

At all levels of local and national government, political manipulation of facts and figures may be employed to conceal or mitigate unwelcome information, and to enhance news that presents the present agencies, incumbent office holders and their policies in the best possible light.

Before elections, for example, a great deal of "doctored" information is released by governments to contribute to their desirability.

1. Restrictions on freedom of information
2. Deception by government
3. Biased expertise

1. Governmental bias in statistics
2. Government propaganda
3. Government bias in wage bargaining
4. Bureaucratic bias

1. Misuse of statistics
2. Lack of information
3. Irresponsible nationalism
4. Conformism

1. Sanitizing of governmental information
2. News censorship
3. Excessive government control

1. Uncontrolled media

1. Official secrecy
2. Excessive state control of communications mass media
3. Domination of government policy-making by short-term considerations

1. Using bias
2. Managing information chaos
3. Biasing statistics

1. Self-government
2. Misinformation
3. Information
4. Government
5. Disinformation
6. Deformation
7. Bias