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White Liar

Hydra

Motives ● Tools and Tactics ● Wins ● Losses ● Related To: ●

Motives ●

Motives ● Be a chameleon of information to validate their message ● Look trustworthy ● Spread mis/dis/mal information Tools and Tactics ● Use tactics from multiple suspects to appear legitimate ● Represents a “stockpile of digital weapons” ● Edited, doctored, and/or manufactures content ● Advances technology i.e. bots, sockpuppetry, AI Wins ● Creates virtual empathy ● Gains trust ● Message is shared Losses ● Lack of Engagement ● Silence ● When the true identity is revealed Related To: ● All suspects, they are a chameleon

Lying to cover up a misdeed or just to get their way Self-deception: Embellishing, exaggerating the highlights Help another person or to protect someone's feelings Ultimate goal is self-preservation: Lying in social media spaces is easier than face-to-face situations

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Tools and Tactics ●

Pushing out something that is not a fact

Omit important details

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Creates a culture of fabrication or exaggeration Remixes things by taking parts of a story and changing it Virtue signaling empathy by pushing ‘like’ button for lies

Wins ●

Fool people , what they pretend to do/say is believed People only see the best parts of white liar Pro-social lies = keeping social status

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Losses ●

Antisocial lying = isolated from others in social networks

Related To: ●

The Blue Liar The Spark

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Motives ● Tools and Tactics ● Wins ● Losses ● Related To: ●

Motives ● Tools and Tactics ● Wins ● Losses ● Related To: ●

Motives ● Tools and Tactics ● Wins ● Losses ● Related To: ●