Before revision:  Partial obfuscation of the sender's choice encourages separation: committing to a less informative signal about the sender's choice affects the endogenous information generation process such that the receiver thereby secures himself more information .
After revision:  Partial obfuscation of the sender's choice encourages separation: committing to a less informative signal about the sender's message to actions: information design is just as good as full commitment. Similarly, we show that these conditions guarantee that ex ante information acquisition always benefits the receiver, even though this learning might actually lower the receiver's expected payoff in the absence of garbling. We illustrate these effects in a range of economically relevant examples .