Chapter 9. How to Lie, How to Tell the Truth
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“I have not observed men’s honesty to increase with their riches.” | ||
| --THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826) | ||
OUR SOCIETY HAS A LEGAL CODE that is based on words. We’re trained to recognize word-based lies. The most subtle of inaccurate innuendo in words uttered by a politician can resonate for many news cycles or even end a career.
But because of our relatively low visual literacy, it’s not as obvious to us when images have been cleverly strung together to create a visual lie. When a sentence is made up of pictures, and the ...
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