Strategies for Smears, Hoaxes, and Lawfare

Saul Alinsky

Smears

Planted Hoaxes

LINK: Nancy Pelosi on "wrap-up smear"

Exaggeration of Quotations

Statements Out of Context

Ignoring the past

Misdirection

Narrative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urzuqut7DUU

Deceptive Editing

Deceptively Edited Videos

Deep Fakes

Fake Fact Checking

Fact-Checking - but checking a fringe version of the central claim
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/fact-check-fact-checkers-falsely-claim-they-are-fact-checkers

Entrapment

Fake Violence

False Flags

Lawfare

Show trials