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The process by which a counterfeit quotation or news item eventually gets picked up by multiple news sources, which cite one another but never lead back to a verifiable source (because there isn't one). The quote's appearance on multiple forums and news aggregators lends it credibility because it is viewed as "reported" by multiple outlets.
Laundered quotes can originate from satire that is not recognized as satire, but more frequently from an Internet writer who is paraphrasing or outright fabricating.
No matter how many places you see it mentioned, the starlet never actually Tweeted that "Scientology is an abusive cult." A comedian said this while doing an impression of her, and then quote laundering took over.
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Something you unfortunately cannot learn to do by looking it up in a dictionary.
If you've come here to, just turn yourself over to the police and tell them where you got all the money. It's probably for the better.
I got it, we'll just launder the money! My junkie cousin used to do money laundering all the time.
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When you wash your clothes and forget there's money in the pockets.
Don't forget to empty your pockets—you don't want to get arrested for money laundering.
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The act of citing a source to support a hypothesis and burying the reference in a footnote or endnote that, once investigated, turns out to be irrelevant, spurious or entirely fictitious.
Similar to quote-stuffing, a common practice in academic paper-writing, but not to be confused with quote mining.
I was trying to track down that juicy reference that Malcolm Gladwell dropped about what Nietzsche said about cell phones but it turned out to be total quote-laundering.
Taking an illegally obtained gun and giving it legitimacy. Giving stolen guns legitimate pedigrees and the proper papers to go along with them. This is a problem in Canada where a gun registry exists
"Bring me a gun and i'll make it legit, I'm a gun launderer. That's how it works my friend"
Telling a lie to another party via your lawyer, and their's, so that now the other party believes it. Whereas they wouldn't have believed it directly from you.
I got my lawyer to do some information laundering so that idiot would believe me.
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The act of using a recording software to record music from Youtube or some other free place to avoid paying for the music. This way it seems like you bought the music, when you really didn't.
I was music laundering and found it.
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