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Fact Checking Tips

Backfire Effect: Facts Do Not Always Make People Change Their Minds

We tend to believe that when we sharewith people evidencethat challenges their beliefs, they would re-evaluate and adjust their convictions accordingly. However, in reality,this is rarely the case. Multiple studies

09/08/2022 No Comments

Manipulation Techniques

Bullshit Communication & Bullshit Receptivity

Bullshit is a communication that is meant to seem meaningful and impressive but, at the same time, is unclarifiably unclarifiable. Used in science, politics, and many other domains.. Let’s have a

28/07/2022 No Comments

Manipulation Techniques

Cui Bono – “Who Benefits?”

Cui bono is a Latin phrase that means “who benefits?”, and is used to suggest that there’s a high probability that those responsible for a certain event are the ones who

14/07/2022 No Comments

Manipulation Techniques

FUD- Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

FUD: (Fear, uncertainty, and doubt ) or the alternative of (Fear, uncertainty, and disinformation ), are a collection of mental states that influence people’s thinking in a variety of situations, and that

23/06/2022 No Comments

Manipulation Techniques

Hypertrucage & Deepfake Phishing

With the growing popularity of malicious deepfakes, we are indeed living the emergence of a new generation of misinformation. Now that the deepfakesare becoming increasingly sophisticated and accessible allowing malicious individuals

18/06/2022 No Comments

Manipulation Techniques

Taking Facts Out of Context and Backing Them Up With Strong Visuals

Images speak louder than a thousand words. Everyone probably knows this saying. But images also have the power to embed completely false information into the memory. The use of visuals

02/06/2022 No Comments

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,

21/04/2022 No Comments

Fact Checking Tips

Ukraine Facts: How to Stay Informed and Avoid Fake News?

In every conflict, censorship, propaganda, misinformation but also disinformation occupy the field. Unsurprisingly, since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, disinformation campaigns have multiplied. And if the Internet, digital platforms

23/03/2022 No Comments

COVID-19

Ukraine War: Why Are the Corona Deniers Also Critical of NATO?

It is well known and documented for years that Russian propaganda in the United States, Germany, and other EU countries specifically aims to polarize. During the corona pandemic, we have witnessed a

10/03/2022 No Comments

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