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Manipulation Techniques

Lying with Statistics

Lying with statistics is something that has been around for a long time now, charts tend to spread fast and widely. We see them everywhere, however, some of them don’t
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Manipulation Techniques

3 Tools to Generate Fake News

How easy is it today to create fake news on social media? The answer is: extremely easy! Free fake news generator apps are not new and have been really within
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Manipulation Techniques

Inventing People

Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist? “Where is Wilson?” – Media in China used a fake researcher from Switzerland to spread propaganda against the Swiss laboratory hypothesis”.This
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Manipulation Techniques

False Conclusions

Have you ever dropped a stone? Do you want to bet that it would fall down? Have you ever asked a scientist if he is 100% sure that the stone
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False Flag Operations

The term false flag is an intelligence, political, and military term that derives originally from the maritime terminology. It refers to misleading maneuvers and undercover operations, usually carried out by the military
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COVID-19

China’s Fictional Characters

With the rise of the COVID-19 Pandemic, various media outlets have reported on how Chinese media use invented people to spread misinformation and propaganda for their own interests. For example,
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Manipulation Techniques

The Many Faces of Deepfake Technology

The word ‚Deepfake‘ is quite clearly a combination of two everyday words, “deep” and “fake”. Deep refers here to the AI technology involved, which is known as deep learning. Deepfake technology is
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