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Misinformer Tactics: Home Alone Edition

December 10, 2024

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Misinformer Tactic: Astroturfing

October 24, 2024

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Misinformer Tactic: Stirring Up Emotions

July 4, 2024

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Misinformer Tactic: Cherry Picking

May 31, 2024

ID: The illustration contains two separate image panes. On the left the rooster crows before dawn, a speech bubble with music notes comes from their mouth. A red arrow points to the panel on the right with the same rooster smiling in front of the rising sun. Text reads: MISINFORMER TACTIC: CAUSAL FALLACY

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Misinformer Tactic: Causal Fallacy

February 1, 2024

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Misinformer Tactic: Firehose of Falsehood

October 26, 2023

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Misinformer Tactic: Slippery Slope

September 20, 2022

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Misinformer Tactic: Doubt Mongering

August 26, 2022

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Misinformer Tactic: Ad Hominem Attack

August 19, 2022

ID: A tiger with dripping black and white stripes painted onto its body stalks among a group of grazing zebras. Text at the top: Misinformer Tactic: Impersonation

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Misinformer Tactic: Impersonation

May 20, 2022

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How lies spread: Learn to spot these 5 Misinformer Tactics

February 17, 2022

ID: In the foreground is a bottle with text that reads 100% Natural Cyanide and a spoon. The background is a pastoral scene of a sun rising over hills. The text reads MISINFORMER TACTIC: Appeal to NATURE

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Misinformer Tactic: Appeal to Nature

January 5, 2022

ID: The illustration features three characters: a hound, a fox and a red herring. The hound is sniffing the red herring and red waves travel from the fish to the nose of the hound. In the background the fox hides behind a log. The text reads MISINFORMER TACTIC: RED HERRING

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Misinformer Tactic: Red Herring

December 29, 2021

ID: Two people stand facing each other. The person on the right has their back to the viewer. In one hand they present two pills to the other person, one black one white. The other hand is behind their back holding many colourful pills. The text above the image reads: MISINFORMER TACTIC: FALSE//DICHOTOMY. The image references a scene from the film The Matrix with the character Morpheus.

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Misinformer Tactic: False Dichotomy

December 24, 2021

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Misinformer Tactic: The Galileo Gambit

October 22, 2021

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