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Online deception is now a multimillion-dollar global industry, and the emerging economy of misinformation is growing quickly.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING: SMOKING’S LESSONS FOR REGULATING SOCIAL MEDIABOBBIE JOHNSONOCTOBER 5, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe postponement follows the startup’s efforts to pivot from denying allegations of deception to talking up its technology and partnerships to calm investors who have seen the stock price plunge by almost 50% since the company went public in June.
NIKOLA POSTPONES CONFERENCE WHERE ITS ELECTRIC PICKUP WAS SUPPOSED TO DEBUTRADMARYASEPTEMBER 30, 2020FORTUNEEspecially when there’s deception and mislabeling going into the buys in the first place.
‘TOTAL WHACK A MOLE’: ROGUE POLITICAL ADS CREATE MOUNTING BRAND SAFETY PROBLEMS FOR PUBLISHERSMAX WILLENSSEPTEMBER 25, 2020DIGIDAYNiccolò Machiavelli, perhaps the most famous political thinker, endorsed using any strategies available—including cooperation, corruption, and deception—to gain status and maintain political control.
THE DARK SIDE OF SMART - FACTS SO ROMANTICDIANA FLEISCHMANSEPTEMBER 15, 2020NAUTILUSIt’s common for telemarketers to disguise themselves in order to trick people to picking up, but the deception takes on another level of seriousness when an election is at stake.
TELEMARKETER SAYS ANOTHER GOP CAMPAIGN WAS BEHIND PHIL GRAHAM ROBOCALLSJESSE MARXJULY 10, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGODeception does not suit the part of a protector, and, when one can do anything without question, where is the use of deception?
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGWith the shrewd cleverness that scarcely ever deserted her, she had forced her temper into the service of deception.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSIn all kinds of deception the Chinese are great adepts, and decidedly more than a match for any Europeans.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERIt seemed to him as if no punishment or penance could atone for such deception and for so great a crime.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLANDDeception, so hateful to her truthful soul, she was compelled to carry on even against her trusting husband.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSWORDS RELATED TO DECEPTION
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- non sequitur
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quibbling
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- spuriousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- non sequitur
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quibbling
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
- action
- angle
- artifice
- bit
- booby trap
- brainchild
- child
- con
- deception
- device
- dodge
- feint
- gambit
- game
- game plan
- gamesmanship
- gimmick
- grift
- intrigue
- layout
- little game
- maneuver
- method
- one-upmanship
- pitch
- plan
- play
- plot
- ploy
- pretext
- proposition
- racket
- ruse
- scenario
- scene
- scheme
- setup
- shift
- slant
- stall
- story
- subterfuge
- switch
- twist
- wile
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