I manage a blog called Implicit Deception, where I post about the hidden properties of deception in communication. The ultimate goal is to publish the blog posts as a book, based on your valuable feedback along the way.
Follow to learn about my research on the language of fake news and the hidden properties of deception that I have uncovered in my data, includingfalse implicatures and presuppositions; metaphor, hyperbole and other forms of figurative language; communicative indirectness when giving advice; and more. I cover a variety of topics, from health and war to anti-democracy movements. The data are based on written and multimodal communication, in language produced by humans and AI chatbots, and on a variety of different types of fake news, mainly disinformation, misinformation, pseudoscience, propaganda and foreign influence operations.