The phrase "harmful information" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing data or content that can cause damage, distress, or negative consequences to individuals or groups.
Example: "The website was taken down for spreading harmful information about health practices."
Alternatives: "dangerous content" or "damaging information."
Adopting an alternative ethical perspective, avoiding telling bad news to a patient may be perceived as reducing harm, with harmful information managed by the family.
"The harmful information that spreads on Facebook includes the myths and lies about vaccination and links to autism.
"But they have also made it easy for some irrational voices and negative opinions and harmful information to spread quickly".
The Chinese government, however, apparently sees a healthy political discourse itself as "harmful information" -- dangerously pornographic to the minds of a disenfranchised population.
Other harmful information includes pornography, tobacco and alcohol advertisements, and "propaganda" on violence, drug addiction, antisocial behavior, and (ironically) racial and class intolerance.
The Financial Times cited a 2004 interview with Chen in the Chinese media in which she said the joint venture had made software used to filter "information of political sensitivity and harmful information".
Having started its own ambitious Internet censorship efforts — a "harmful-information defense system," as the university calls it — long before the government's latest campaign, Shanghai Normal University is promoting itself within the education establishment as a pioneer.
The Cyberspace Administration of China said the companies had promised to "handle in a timely way terror-related harmful, illegal information, create a clear internet space and maintain social stability".
However, the cross-link signals are harmful to information transmission, which brings new challenges to the transmission designs.
The charges included disseminating false information harmful to Egypt, accepting foreign donations without government permission and embezzling donated money.
But creating a new political force, armed with information harmful to the government, will introduce a wildcard element into a knife-edge election.
