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Deception is the act of convincing one or many recipients of untrue information. The person creating the deception knows it to be false while the receiver of the message has a tendency to believe it (although it is not always the case). [1]
Deception in animals is the voluntary or involuntary transmission of misinformation by one animal to another, of the same or different species, in a way that misleads the other animal.
Information Manipulation Theory (abbreviated IMT) is a theory of deceptive discourse production, rooted in H. Paul Grice's theory of conversational implicature. [1] [2] IMT argues that, rather than communicators producing truths and lies, the vast majority of everyday deceptive discourse involves complicated combinations of elements that fall somewhere in between these polar opposites; with ...
Greenwashing (a compound word modeled on "whitewash"), also called green sheen, [1] [2] is a form of advertising or marketing spin that deceptively uses green PR and green marketing to persuade the public that an organization's products, goals, or policies are environmentally friendly.
On Friday, we published an article about how former President Donald Trump’s campaign has made a habit of deceptively using quotations in television ads attacking Vice President Kamala Harris.
Here’s a rundown of the ad’s questionable quotes: "The New York Times: ‘Harris is seeking to significantly raise taxes,’ August 22, 2024"
CNN fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale on Tuesday exposed the latest instance of what he described as the Donald Trump campaign’s “habit of deceptively using quotes in its TV ads, cutting out ...
[3] [14] They are "deceptively bad argument[s] that impede the progress of the dialogue". [3] The strawman fallacy , for example, involves inaccurately attributing a weak position to one's opponent [ 4 ] and then proving this position to lead to one's own conclusion.