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.
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This category has the following 42 subcategories, out of 42 total.
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Pages in category "Deception"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 256 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
- Fake news in India
- 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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- 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
- Police impersonation
- 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