Hahaganda, Whataboutism and other tricks used to fool you online

Our free email updates are the best way to get headlines direct to your inbox Our free email updates are the best way to get headlines direct to your inbox Information warfare abounds, and everyone online has been drafted whether they know it or not, writes H. Colleen Sinclair, Associate Research Professor of Social Psychology, Louisiana State University. Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading content disseminated for selfish or malicious purposes. Unlike misinformation, which may be shared unwittingly or with good intentions, disinformation aims to foment distrust, destabilize institutions, discredit good intentions, defame opponents and delegitimize sources of knowledge such as…