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Welcome to Theatre of Lies

Welcome to Theatre of Lies — a blog about lies, misinformation, and their power to manipulate us. More that identifying these distortions…

May 24, 2023

Welcome to Theatre of Lies

May 24, 2023

Ted Griffith

Anti-vax media misuse results from massive COVID19 study, playing to the biases of their audiences.

In one corner, vaccine researchers use the analysis of large-scale data to declare vaccines are safe. In the other corner, a publication…

Feb 28

Anti-vax media misuse results from massive COVID19 study, playing to the biases of their audiences.

Feb 28

Ted Griffith

Who stands up for lies about Canada?

Canadian politicians shout the word “misinformation” at each other in the House of Commons, but say not a word on it to protect our…

Jan 2

Who stands up for lies about Canada?

Jan 2

Ted Griffith

Alberta to give misinformation a seat at its cabinet table.

Alberta may be Canada’s most American province, and often Texas-like in its culture. Lots of ranches, even more oil, a fondness for cowboy…

Nov 22, 2023

Alberta to give misinformation a seat at its cabinet table.

Nov 22, 2023

Ted Griffith

If media wants to fight misinformation, then its editorial boards have to start calling it out.

Canadians have become used to calling out the lies of the American right and its standard bearer for misinformation and hyperbole, former…

Nov 3, 2023

If media wants to fight misinformation, then its editorial boards have to start calling it out.

Nov 3, 2023

Ted Griffith

Misinformation and Persuasion (or what I learned from Donald Trump)

How three years of research into lies and misinformation helped me better understand that persuasion is both an art and science.

Oct 3, 2023

Misinformation and Persuasion (or what I learned from Donald Trump)

Oct 3, 2023

Ted Griffith

Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is not about protecting children.

The lies, their repetition, and now widespread legislation is giving people permission to express their hate.

Jun 12, 2023

Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is not about protecting children.

Jun 12, 2023

Ted Griffith

Sweet lies are easy to swallow.

If a corporate social responsibility program is failing, yet continues to be promoted — is it a lie?

Jun 2, 2023

Sweet lies are easy to swallow.

Jun 2, 2023

Ted Griffith

“Existential Threat” — another term bites the dust.

Washington Post op ed declares the too-often used term now meaningless as America’s writers go on strike, and prove it.

May 24, 2023

“Existential Threat” — another term bites the dust.

May 24, 2023

Ted Griffith

Ted Griffith

40-year professional communicator investigating lies and misinformation; why we believe them, the damage they do, and how to fix it. Book, Theatre of Lies, 2024

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