Manipulation Techniques Archive

Manipulation Techniques

Climate Change

Pensions, Climate: Same Fight? Can Economic Growth and Climate Action Coexist?

What are some false or misleading claims regarding the impact of raising the retirement age on economic growth, women, and the environment, which have been highlighted by the recent unrest

11/04/2023 No Comments

Manipulation Techniques

The Rise of Deepfakes: How AI-Generated Visuals are Threatening the Integrity of News and Information

In recent years, advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have enabled the creation of highly realistic and convincing fake images and videos, known as deepfakes. These deepfakes are created by using AI algorithms to

27/03/2023 No Comments

Climate Change

The Danger of Impossible Expectations: How Demanding Unrealistic Certainty Delays Action on Climate Change

As the threat of climate change becomes increasingly urgent, one of the biggest roadblocks to taking meaningful action is the demand for impossible levels of certainty. Critics often dismiss climate

27/03/2023 No Comments

Climate Change

Fake Experts

Spotting and Avoiding the Fake Experts Fallacy: Tips for Evaluating the Credibility of Scientific Sources Science denial is a growing problem in today’s society, with many people rejecting scientific evidence

25/03/2023 No Comments

Fact Checking Tips

The Illusory Truth Bias: “You Repeat, I Believe”

The Illusory Truth bias, also labeled as the illusory truth effect and reiteration effect, is a cognitive bias that refers to the tendency for people to believe a piece of

24/03/2023 No Comments

Manipulation Techniques

Cherry-Picking

Cherry-picking is the act of carefully selecting data that appear to confirm one’s position while ignoring other data that contradicts that position. DEFINITION Cherry-picking is a logical fallacy that occurs

17/03/2023 No Comments

Overriding Suspicion

Overriding Suspicion is a public manipulation technique that involves having a nihilistic degree of skepticism towards the official account, preventing belief in anything that doesn’t fit into the conspiracy theory.

07/03/2023 No Comments

Manipulation Techniques

Ad hominem

Ad Hominem, which is Latin for “to the person,” is a fallacy that discredits an argument by attacking the person or group making it, rather than the argument itself. This

03/03/2023 No Comments

Climate Change

Politicization of Climate Change: the Case of Citizens for Responsible Solar in Rural America

Citizens for Responsible Solar is part of a growing backlash against renewable energy in rural communities across the United States. The group, which was started in 2019 and appears to

27/02/2023 No Comments

Climate Change

Campaigning for information literacy

Campaigning for information literacy

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