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    Bellingcat on Hard Talk, BBC Archived Message

    Posted by margo on December 17, 2019, 2:40 pm

    Projection is the best propaganda tool, by far

    Elliot Higgins is exasperated at how everyone makes everything "about Russia" / YCNMIU

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cb74

    Projection as an Interpersonal Influence Tactic

    In his analysis of Nazi propaganda, Ellis Freeman identified an influence tactic based on projection: accusing another person of the negative traits and behaviors that one possesses and exhibits with the goal of deflecting blame away from one's own misdeeds and toward the accused

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    • Bellingcat on Hard Talk, BBC - margo December 17, 2019, 2:40 pm