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A growing document, will add terms as they come up. Suggestion for additions welcome: [email protected]

Broken Mirror

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False Flag

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(This Modern World - full comic)

The term false flag originated from pirate trickery (arrr!) — when pirates would sail into battle, they sometimes flew flags of other countries, a disguise to take enemies by surprise. Sometimes, the attacks would be blamed on the country whose flag they flew.

Today, false flag refers to any covert operation designed to deceive people by falsely attributing an activity or attack to a particular group (for example, a country organizing an attack on itself as a pretext for war, as perfected by the Klingons attacking their own ship in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).

Sometimes (more often?!) the false flag argument is used as the basis for conspiracy theories (e.g. Sandy Hook deniers, or 9/11 truthers who believe these events were an “inside job”).

For more:

Sockpuppet

The term "sockpuppet," named for a puppet worn on one's hand, refers to an online identity designed to deceive. For example, a false identity might be used to publicly praise or denounce an organization. It might also be used to evade suspension from an online community.

Examples that come to mind is Mitt Romney's Pierre Delecto account, or anything having to do with the Russian Internet Research Agency.

For more: learn about the different types of sockpuppets — and how they are used to manipulate public opinion — on Wikipedia.

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