What is the opposite of plagiarism?

[The Backlash Cometh]

What is it called when you make up a quotation and attribute it to someone without their permission?

[Earth_First]

1. Sean Hannity? n/t

[MattBaggins]

23. or John Stossel

[Rage for Order]

2. Misspeaking? n/t

[Dr.Phool]

3. Lying?

[mike_c]

I'd call that particular circumstance "lying" at worst...

...and being mistaken at best, depending on whether the attributer was aware of the discrepancy.

[Book Lover]

4. That's just called a lie

If you want multisyllabic words, you could call it mendacity and misattribution.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. M&M. I like it.

[Posteritatis]

5. Fabrication (or, more simply put, lying).

[Ivan Sputnik]

6. suicide

If you work in legitimate media.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. That's the thing. It's unethical, isn't it?

[Buzz Clik]

7. Fraud?

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Deep rectal discovery? n/t

[Wizard777]

9. Misquoting. But what are entailing would not be the opposite of plagerism.

The opposite of plagerism would be authoring. The "making up" part implies creative originality. They are just not willing to take credit for their work and assigning it to someone else. It's Misquoting.

[LeftishBrit]

10. I call it 'reverse plagiarism'...

I've actually had to deal with it professionally. I once collaborated with someone, X, on an edited academic volume. X disliked a rival, Y. I discovered that X had inserted, without attribution or permission, several sentences into contributor Z's chapter about how bad Y's work was! Fortunately, this was discovered and dealt with before publication.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. Wow. That's pretty bad.

[NoGOPZone]

11. false attribution? nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. False attribution and misquote seem to fit the best.

[Speck Tater]

12. "Bearing false witness?" nt

[mcctatas]

13. Douchebaggery?

or FAUX news???

[Buzz Clik]

18. That's a pretty broad brush. Some of us consider douchebaggery to be an artform.

[ThomWV]

24. If douchebaggery is an artform my brother in law is Rembrandt

[Buzz Clik]

25. that's pretty impressive.

I'd be the guy who was rejected by the art school advertised on matchbooks: "Draw Skippy the turtle, and we'll see if you have the potential to be a great artist!"

[housewolf]

14. Libel... maybe

n/t

[Robbien]

15. Karl Rove Standard Operating Procedure

:)

[Greyhound]

21. Legally, it is libel, in everyday parlance it is a lie. n/t

[Benhurst]

22. False attribution.