Another added that one of the purposes of the media hype was actually to deliberately confuse people.

We deliberately confuse everything, so that nobody knows what is coming from where.

When you deliberately confuse people with something false ..." "But who is confused?

Bumfuzzle and its variant bumfuddle (influenced by befuddle) mean the same: "to confuse deliberately."

Are you trying to deliberately confuse the issues?

Deliberately confusing us as to the size and type of vessel,' Marmion had said.

The aim of the argument is to deliberately confuse the jury by making use of the fallacy known as ignoratio elenchi (or a red herring).

Saying that "Empathy" combines fictional and documentary techniques is a bit misleading, since it deliberately confuses them.

It is a form of Red Herring argument, used to deliberately confuse the jury.

In appraising the work, the reviewers deliberately confused the lighthearted essays written by Hunt with those by Hazlitt.