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[6] [7] Fearmongering can make people fear the wrong things, and use too many resources to avoid rare and unlikely dangers while more probable dangers are ignored. For example, some parents have kept their children at home to prevent abduction while they paid less attention to more common dangers such as lifestyle diseases or traffic accidents. [8]
Fast forward to today, and we’re hearing the same type of fearmongering. For instance, Joshua Reed Eakle, president of Project Liberal, an anti-Trump organization, claimed that Trump is ...
In a decision Monday granting sweeping immunity to Trump, Chief Justice John Roberts accused the liberal dissenters of “fear mongering” and “ignoring” fundamental constitutional principles ...
“This reckless fear-mongering puts vulnerable communities at risk, stokes division, and incites hate crimes.”
An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem) is a fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for an idea by attempting to increase fear towards an alternative. An appeal to fear is related to the broader strategy of fear appeal and is a common tactic in marketing, politics, and media (communication ...
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire.Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
He deemed it “fear mongering” and derided “the tone of chilling doom.” Roberts declined to respond to CNN’s questions about the recent term and this case. All told, Roberts appears to ...
The chief justice dismissed the dissents, suggesting that his three liberal colleagues had misinterpreted the majority's opinion and were engaging in "fear mongering."