| More Information About This
        Worldview Theme | 
    
    | a spade
      WV
Theme... | ...individual <--->
      nature
      
       | 
  
    | the theme is paired with: #3
      Valuing Honesty, Learning  to make  Choice
      #43    in the Choices We Make cards  | 
    
      | this theme as presented in
        older version of theme
        structure:        is this theme new to version 4?--YES | 
    
      | click to look at the Project Worldview Cultural
        Literacy Encyclopedia  Related Words,
        Beliefs, Background articles for the above choice  | 
    
      |  Project Worldview authored discussion,
        Worldview Watch related issues, songs, etc.   | 
    
      | Worldview Watch 
        #75:    
      Bashar of Essassani and Bashar al-Assad:
      UFO Religious Celebrity and War Criminal  | 
    
      | Worldview
        Watch issue #78 / posted 11/3/2024 Information
Wars—A Report from the Local Front
         
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      | Worldview Watch issue #70, posted
        1/31/2022  Conservatives,
        Conscientiousness and Chaos
  
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      |   Worldview Watch issue #67 posted 5 /5/
        2021     Big Lies Can Have Big
      Consequences | 
    
      | Worldview Watch issue #64 posted 7/22/2020  The
Ideology of Journalism | 
    
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      | Wikipedia articles related to this theme:
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      | deception  | Lie | Disinformation | 
    
      | bait
        and switch | bad
        faith | delusion | 
    
      | Military
        Deception | false
        balance | clickbait | 
    
      | Information
        Overload | Global
        Disinformation Index | Truth
        Decay (about 2018 book) | 
    
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      | 
 worldview internal inconsistency related: Strongly valuing this
theme and any of the themes in the list below is a contradiction:
       | 
    
      | #1A   Humbly
      Unsure | #1B Skeptic | #5A   Scientific
      Materialism | #6A
      Orderly & Explicable | 
    
      | #6B   Scientific
      Method | #10   Secular
      Humanism | #13  In
      Human/Computer Hands:  Dancing
      With Systems | #14A  Salvation &
      Moralistic God | 
    
      | #14B Moral Arc of
      Universe/Karma/Reincarnation | #16B   The
      Golden Rule, Village Ethic of Mutual Help | #17B Gratitude &
      Forgiveness | #19A  Competitive
      Capitalism | 
    
      | #19B Corporate Capitalism | #20A   Elitism | #21B Service to Others | #22A Economic Growth | 
    
      | #23A  Sustainability | 23B
      Enoughness | #26A The Consumerist | #26B  More is Better Mentality / Abundance | 
    
      | #27 The Small Producer | #28B Healthy Orientation | #29A   The Self
      Restrained Person | #30   
      Intellectual Freedom | 
    
      | #31   Education
      for Democracy | #32A  Valuing Human
      Rights | #32B Culture of
      Tolerance | #34 Valuing Traditions and
      Status Quo | 
    
      | #35B Working for Change | #37B Global Citizen | #38   Love As Family
      Glue | #40  Environmental
      Economics | 
    
      | #42   Ethical
      Orientation | #45A Borrowing Mentality | #45B Work Hard, Pay As You
      Go | #46A The Technological Fix
      Mentality | 
    
      | #46B Military Backers | #47A  The Attitudinal
      Fix Mentality | #47B Pacifism /
      Non-Violence | #48B  Liking
      Co-operation-Based Communities | 
    
      | #49A  Social Welfare
      Statism | #49B Idealistic Socialism | #50A Libertarian | #50B Left Anarchist | 
    
      | #51A Ethical
      Globalization | #51B Big Business Pushes
      Limits | #52   Physically
      Challenged ==>Independent
      Living | #102A Conscientious,
      Efficient | 
    
      | #103B Celebrating Team
      Accomplishments | #201A Evidence-Based | #203B Egalitarian
      Progressive | #204B 
      Limits & Ethics | 
    
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    | More to Explore -- Worldview Theme
      #4: Spreading Disinformation
      / Tactical Deception 
      
     | 
  
    | The International Grand Committee
      on Disinformation and "Fake News" | 
  
    | The Center for Countering Digital
      Hate | 
  
    | Lying
      Trump, GOP create their own reality. Which one do you choose to live in? 
      by Rex Huppke 
      (opinion from USA Today 
      October 19 2025) | 
  
    | Trump’s
      anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an
      unravelling of the Enlightenment
      by Polly Toynbee (from The Guardian October 17 2025) | 
  
    | 7
      in 10 say false information online ‘major threat’ to US: Survey
      
      
      by
      Filip Timotija
      (from The Hill August 20 2025) 
     | 
  
    | Scientists
      slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of
      misinformation by D. Noor and O.Milman (from The Guardian Aug 1
      2025) | 
  
    | We’re
      watching mass delusion happen’: Trump’s return to White House brings
      cascade of lies by David Smith (story posted on The Guardian
      January 26 2025) | 
  
    | Trump’s
      address to Congress was built on a foundation of lies by Steve Bennen
      (post on MSNBC Mar 5 2025) | 
  
    | Meta
      is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
      by Dan Milmo (from The Guardian Jan 8 2025) | 
  
    | Politicians
      and misinformation go hand in hand, but it’s a dangerous game by Sheldon
      Jacobson  (from The
      Hill August 26 2024) | 
  
    | Experts
      debunk Trump claim that wind energy is killing many U.S. birds by Mark
      Kaufman (posted on Mashable July 27 2024) | 
  
    | Trump
      allies crush misinformation research despite Supreme Court loss
      
      by Cat Zakrzewski and Naomi Nix (from Washington Post July 24
      2024) | 
  
    | How
      to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation
      tactics by Amy Westervolt and Kyle Pope (from The Guardian
      April 14 2024) | 
  
    | The
      right-wing scammers who paved the way for Trump  by Zack Beauchamp
      (report from VOX April 6 2024)
     | 
  
    | Why
      the First Amendment Protects Misinformation, and Why It Should Continue to
      Do So (from Cornell Information Science 
      by Jeff Kosseff March 13 2024) | 
  
    | What
      tech giants are (and aren’t) doing to stop the spread of misinformation
      by Shannon Bond and Miles Parks (from NPR Feb 16 2024) | 
  
    | “An
      alarming wave of climate misinformation is spreading on YouTube, Watchdog
      says” by Rachel Ramirez (from CNN Jan 16 2024) | 
  
    | Anansi's
      Gold by Yepoka Yeebo (book about a notorious con artist, review from The
      New York Times Aug 2 2023) | 
  
    | "We
      should all be viewing this as a five-alarm fire": Threat of
      disinformation escalates ahead of 2024 by Ali Velshi (posted
      on MSNBC July 8 2023) | 
  
    | Ohio
      Staters Grapple With Bill That Stifles Climate Speech by Dan Gearino
      (from Mother Jones June 1 2023) | 
  
    | Trump
      campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret by
      Josh Dawsey (Washington Post report Feb 11 2023) | 
  
    | Propaganda--What
      is Truth? (article re fake photos from The Economist Jan 14
      2023) | 
  
    | The Youths Are Very Online. Who’s Teaching Them About Misinformation? 
      by Jackie Flynn Mogensen (from  Mother Jones, September 2022) | 
  
    | How far-right groups use memes to radicalize people
      (NPR  interview of Harvard's Joan Donovan, September 25 2022) | 
  
    | Election
      deniers have taken their fraud theories on tour — to nearly every state 
      (report
      from NPR June 30, 2022)
     | 
  
    | Can a first-grader
      deliberately mislead you? By Meghan Leahy 
      (from The Washington Post April 27 2022) | 
  
    | Anne
      Applebaum: Social Media Made Spreading Disinformation Easy 
      by Kate Cray  (article in The Atlantic April 7 2022) | 
  
    | “Was
      Donald Trump America's First Atheist President?” By Ben Pryor (from Newsweek   March 8 2022) | 
  
    | Brazil:
      Bolsonaros Scorns Accurate Data (report from The Economist
      January 15 2022) | 
  
    | “We
      Found the One Group of Americans Who Are Most Likely to Spread Fake
      News”   
      
      By
      Hemant Kakkar and Asher
      Lawson  (report
      from Politico Jan 14 2022)
     | 
  
    | “Connecticut
      judge orders Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay damages to families of Sandy
      Hook shooting victims in defamation lawsuits” by Zack Murdock (from The
      Hartford Courant Nov 15 2021) | 
  
    | "Climate
      misinformation on Facebook viewed 1.4 million times daily"
      by Joseph Winters  (post on Grist Nov 4 2021)
     | 
  
    | "The
      Facebook Crisis in India Might Be the Worst Facebook Crisis of All"
      by Nitish Pahwa 
      
       (posted on Slate Oct
      26, 2021)
     | 
  
    | "Christian
      radio host sentenced to three life sentences for Ponzi scheme bilking
      millions from elderly listeners" (report from NBC News
      October 2021) | 
  
    | "Why
      some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity”
      by Shirin Ghaffery (report posted on Vox June 26 2021) | 
  
    | "Briefing
      Cybersecurity: Ransomware" (report from The Economist June
      19 2021) | 
  
    | Free
      Speech and Social Media (article from The Economist April 17
      2021) | 
  
    | Dominion:
      will one Canadian company bring down Trump's empire of disinformation? By
      David Smith  (article from
      The Guardian   Apr
      4 2021) | 
  
    | "Site
      That Traffics In Misinformation Fills Void Left By Struggling
      Newspaper" by Leila Fadel  (January
      11 2021 NPR story) | 
  
    | TV
      Producers Should Not Escape Scrutiny by Oliver Darcy (CNN Business
      report January 8 2021 re those spreading misinformation) | 
  
    | Military
      Deception (article from The Economist December 19 2020) | 
  
    | “Facebook
      is a Doomsday machine” by Adrienne LaFrance (article posted on The
      Atlantic Dec 15 2020) | 
  
    | “Key
      U.S. lawmaker backs idea of a global agreement to govern Big Tech” by
      Jon Ward (report from Yahoo News December 2 2020) | 
  
    | “India’s
      ruling party invents a Muslim plot against Hindu women”
      (report in The Economist Nov 21 2020) | 
  
    | "How
      Far-Right Personalities and Conspiracy Theorists Are Cashing in on the
      Pandemic Online" (Time
      magazine article August 31 2020 ) | 
  
    | Antisocial:
      Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians and the Hijacking of the American
      Conversation
      by Andrew Marantz (book review from The Guardian October 13
      2019) | 
  
    | “How
      Facebook likes could profile voters for manipulation”
      by Barbara Ortutay And Anick Jesdanun   (March 19 2018 report)
     | 
  
    | Merchants
      of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway (book review  by Robin McKie in The Guardian 
      Aug 7 2010) | 
  
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