fear, uncertainty, and doubt
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n.
A marketing strategy in which the manufacturer of a product tries to make consumers worry that buying a competing product might result in bad consequences, typically by criticizing or spreading disinformation about the competing product.
abbrv.
FUD
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc.
Amy Hackney Blackwell.
2008.
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