"whisper campaign" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1920 November 1, “Harding Ignores ‘’Whisper’ Campaign”, in New York Times, retrieved 2009-08-17, page 1",
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          "ref": "1976 February 12, Donald Horne, “The campaign of the media”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 2009-08-17, page 8",
          "text": "Both publicly and in a particularly unscrupulous whisper campaign the Liberals tried to change the aspect from one of folly to one of personal corruption and some of this got through to the voters.",
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        "(idiomatic) A method of persuasion in which damaging rumors or innuendo are deliberately spread concerning a person or other target, while the source of the rumors tries to avoid detection."
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