Jamming

Also a Bob Marley song. In electronic and information warfare jamming is any deliberate generation and emission of signals designed to interfere with an enemy's communication, surveillance or detection systems.

The disruptive signal is designed to overwhelm the target system or to add confusion to receivers/detectors using random or broadband noise in similar wavelengths or info-spaces.

Radio frequency jamming is still commonly used today for tactical denial of phone and GPS communications as well as in military EWF.

In the digital realm packet storms, channel flooding, and forum sliding, are related techniques, increasingly done with bot farms of sock-puppets. There are some similarities to Denial Of Service (DOS) attacks.

In the civil infowar sphere it is common today to see total media saturation with generated stories and fake discussion designed to distract from other messages, disorient the public on nuanced political issues.