Wiktionary
alt. (context US idiomatic English) A method of persuasion in which damaging rumors or innuendo are deliberately spread concerning a person or other target, while the source of the rumors tries to avoid detection. n. (context US idiomatic English) A method of persuasion in which damaging rumors or innuendo are deliberately spread concerning a person or other target, while the source of the rumors tries to avoid detection.
Usage examples of "rumor campaign".
Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent's life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.
There had been more than one near-riot in a village where the primitive rumor campaign had somehow failed to precede him.
At the end of 1982, for instance, a rumor campaign was orchestrated against the head of a local state-supported news agency, accusing the man of being a transvestite.
With another $2,000,000 he created a huge rumor campaign to the effect that this patch of desert was literally floating on oil.