How language is twisted into propaganda messaging
The surprising observation that “medium confidence” in a scientific finding means we have no confidence at all and high confidence means we have only moderate evidence and medium consensus.
Did attack dogs bite a little girl in the face at pipeline protest in North Dakota?
TL;DR Summary Read on to discover the fascinating history behind this false social media meme and how this became an established “fact”, in spite of it being an outright lie.
Social media poster that is true
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Denmark has the world’s highest personal debt – surprised?
A popular and widely distributed social media propaganda poster proclaims Denmark as the happiest nation on earth because of a host of mostly false assertions about life in Denmark. Read the entire series about that nonsensical yet highly effective propaganda here. As yet another counterpoint to that silly poster, Danish households also have the world’s largest level of personal debt: “Danish households owe their creditors 321 percent of disposable incomes, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. That’s…