Category:Deception
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Deception is the act of propagating a belief that is not true, or is not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as distraction, camouflage, or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith. It can also be called, with varying subjective implications, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, ruse, or subterfuge.
Subcategories
This category has the following 42 subcategories, out of 42 total.
Pages in category "Deception"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 252 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Caller ID spoofing
- Camouflage
- Catfishing
- Celle Hole
- Charlatan
- Clickbait
- Coding (therapy)
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive distortion
- Coin rolling scams
- Coin-matching game
- Communications deception
- Computer virus
- Concealing objects in a book
- Content farm
- Contextual lie
- Corinthian leather
- List of corporate disinformation website campaigns
- Corruption
- Counter-illumination
- Counterfeit money
- Countershading
- Cover-up
- Covert racism
- Creative journalism
- Curveball (informant)
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- Fabrication (lie)
- Fake impact factor
- List of fake news troll farms
- Fake news
- Fake news website
- List of fake news websites
- Fake orgasm
- Faked death
- Faking (music)
- False advertising
- False dilemma
- False flag
- False premise
- Feint
- Fib (lie)
- Fictitious entry
- Fine print
- Flag jacking
- FluBot
- Forgery
- Forked tongue
- Frameup
- Fraud
- Frazier v. Cupp
- Front organization
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- Magic (illusion)
- Magic pipe
- Malinformation
- Malvertising
- Maria Duval scam
- Mechanic's grip
- Military impostor
- Miming in instrumental performance
- List of miscellaneous fake news websites
- Misdirection (magic)
- Misinformation
- Mismarking
- Misprision of treason
- Mock auction
- Motivation impairment effect
- Mutual deceit
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- Paltering
- Passing off
- List of patent medicines
- Paternalistic deception
- Perverting the course of justice
- Phishing
- Pious fiction
- Placebo
- Placebo button
- Plain folks
- Playback singer
- Playing the victim
- Poisoning the well
- List of political disinformation website campaigns
- List of political disinformation website campaigns in the United States
- Potemkin village
- Predatory advertising
- Predatory conference
- Predatory lending
- Predatory mortgage securitization
- Predatory mortgage servicing
- Predatory publishing
- Preference falsification
- Propaganda
- Pseudolaw
- Pseudophilosophy
- Pseudoscience
- Pseudotheology