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Who’s pulling the strings? Meet the Media Billionaires who shape your reality.

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, Misinformation, Power mapping, TikTok / By Deepak Puri

Media billionaires shape your reality through the news you get. Follow the money to see how media billionaires and their funders shape your reality through the news you get. Billionaires and their funders have their own agendas which they push through their media platforms to shape public opinion. Your interests may not be the same …

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Counterprogramming tries to distract the public from the facts about the Jan 6th insurrection

Counterprogramming: Distract public attention to hide your role in the Jan 6th insurrection

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, Mapping and Story Mapping, Misinformation / By Deepak Puri

‘Flood the zone with shit’ – Steve Bannon Counterprogramming tries to distract public attention (with BS) so people don’t learn about the people behind the Jan 6th insurrection and attempt to topple American democracy. It’s an old trick. “Hillary Clinton was ahead in the polls in every contested state when the Access Hollywood tape dropped. “Just kiss. I …

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Study disinformation plays in order to defend against them such as how they are used to dodge questions with counter-accusations, use what-about-ism to justify terrible things and worse.

From Russian With Love: Disinformation Playbook

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, Misinformation / By Deepak Puri

Study disinformation plays in order to defend against them such as how they are used to dodge questions with counter-accusations, use what-about-ism to justify terrible things and worse.

Fighting disinformation? Eighteen free weapons for your arsenal.

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, Messaging, Misinformation, Radicalization / By Deepak Puri

Fighting disinformation? Use all the tools in your arsenal. Here are eighteen of the best. Disinformation basics Disinformation attacks involve these tactics according to Harmony Square:– Trolling people and deliberately provoking people to react emotionally to evoke outrage– Exploiting emotional language to make people afraid or angry about a particular topic– Artificially amplify the reach …

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Disinformation is often just Bullshit (BS) designed to trick readers with impressive language, bogus logic and graphs.

How to spot BS being used to manipulate public opinion

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, Messaging, Training Volunteers and Organizers / By Deepak Puri

“Instead of trying to combat each leak directly, we should teach the public to tell when they are being manipulated. Americans should be taught the basic skills necessary to be savvy media consumers, from how to fact-check news articles to how pictures can lie.”

How to spot a disinformation zombie

Leave a Comment / Campaigning during Coronavirus, Disinformation, Messaging / By Deepak Puri

Disinformation is a cruel tactic to grab power by tricking people into voting against their self-interest and safety. Learn how it works and how to counter it.