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Anatomy of Deception v: The Century of Manufactured Lies

AI, deepfakes, and a brutal question: what happens to democracy when no one knows what to believe anymore? “The most effective deception does not consist of hiding reality. It consists of constructing another one and getting millions of people to…

The big lie that is repeating itself

How the narrative after WW2 was nothing else than to obscure the truth and how it is connected to the treatment of refugees today. The narrative after WW2 that the whole West did not know what Nazi Germany was doing…

For U.S. Schools, A Lie That Lasts 50 Years Is No Longer a Lie

I mention schools because something bothers me the most there, but I could mention newspapers or talk shows or Wikipedia — in any of these fora, once a lie lasts long enough, even if it’s been thoroughly debunked repeatedly for…