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Constructive Conflict Guide > Civic Knowledge and Skills That We Can Use to Help Ourselves and Our Society More Constructively Handle Intractable Conflict > Defending Democracy from the Bad-Faith Actors Who Seek to Undermine It > Opposing Information Warfare
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The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model
A 2016 RAND Crp. Report on the progaganda approach used by Russia--and increasingly used by some politicial operatives (such as Steve Bannon) in the U.S. as well.
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Misinformation and Disinformation
Intentional distortion of information has become a significant problem in the social media driven information environment. It is trivially easy to make up very believable stories with photographic or "scientific data" as proof. And the mis/dis information strategy of "firehose of falsehoods" has successfully convinced many people that there actually is no truth, or at least no way to ascertain it. So best to just stick with your own beliefs -- right or not!
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Firehose of Falsehood Attack
A term developed by RAND to describe a propaganda technique in which large numbers of false messages are sent out rapidly, repetitively, and continuously over multiple channels, so as to overwhelm the receiving audiences.
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Beyond the Headlines: RAND's Christopher Paul Discusses the Russian 'Firehose of Falsehood'
As part of RAND's ongoing “Beyond the Headlines” series, researcher Christopher Paul discussed his recent study on the Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” propaganda model.
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The firehose of falsehood effect, and how to extinguish it
While propaganda is nothing new, the information age has unlocked the possibility of manipulating audiences in ways that could only have been dreamed of by power-hungry regimes of the past.