The phrase "distorted discourse" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a communication exchange that has been distorted in some way, often due to misunderstanding or manipulation. For example, "The recent political debates have been marked by a lot of distorted discourse, with candidates often distorting their opponents' comments."
As part of a wide-ranging interference campaign during the 2016 election, Russian operatives used advertisements on social media platforms to sow division and discord, distorting public discourse and coarsening our political debate.
The latest round of China bashing -- that China is "killing us," stealing our jobs and money -- overestimates China's clout and distorts our discourse.
How should it apply if the false statement does not defame anyone, but is merely a false statement that distorts public discourse, such as a false statement by a political candidate that exaggerates her credentials or a false statement by a political commentator about the number of people killed in Syria?
Complaints that LGS1 distorts the discourse of science are therefore misplaced at the outset.
In a January 8 , 2015AlterNet blog, Adam Hudson writes: "Ongoing protests against police brutality have revealed how distorted the American discourse on crime is.
"We reject — and we call on others reject — efforts such as this to derail or distort candid, thoughtful discourse on race," Nagel said.
The passages in the Farewell Address about foreign affairs, the famous and familiar passages, contain warnings that European powers will take advantage of our partisan and sectional differences, distort our public discourse, and draw us into wars or conflicts we could otherwise avoid.
"Look at how our discourse is completely distorted and dumbed-down by the same cartoonish neocon orthodoxies that have also destroyed our foreign policy.
But our discourse is being badly distorted by ideologues and wishful thinkers — boring, cruel romantics — pretending to be technocrats.
Paul Krugman ("Boring cruel romantics," Views, Nov. 22) writes: "But our discourse is being badly distorted by ideologues and wishful thinkers... it's time to puncture their pretensions".
