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disinformation

Entries tagged with disinformation - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

4 concepts

Astroturfing

Creating the appearance of widespread grassroots support for a position when the support is manufactured, funded, or coordinated from above.

Overwhelming audiences with a rapid, continuous flood of disinformation so that truth becomes impossible to defend.

Passing unreliable information through a chain of increasingly credible-looking sources until it appears legitimate.

A falsehood so enormous that people struggle to believe anyone would fabricate it - which is precisely why they accept it.