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Sep 14, 2020 · Governments around the world, particularly authoritarian ones, often deny inconvenient or unfavorable information, calling it fake news or false rumor, and yet what was denied often turns out to be true eventually. How will citizens react when the initial “fake news” is verified to be real?
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Sep 21, 2020 · Key Takeaways. A recent study measured how the public’s trust in government differs when exposed to rumors, government denials, and subsequent verification of the initial rumors. The study,...
Arguably, the key concept of plausible deniability is plausibility. It is relatively easy for a government official to issue a blanket denial of an action, and it is possible to destroy or cover up evidence after the fact, that might be sufficient to avoid a criminal prosecution, for instance.
Feb 24, 2011 · Defensive denial need not rest on structural defenses alone. Behavioral defenses work by introducing environmental uncertainty into terrorist planning. The US Department of Homeland Security suggests that ‘variability and unpredictability must be consciously injected into flexible prevention measures’.
- Alex S. Wilner
- 2011
- The United Nations’ Human Rights Council Special Procedures
- Government Responses in Country
- Government Responses in The International Arena
- Concluding Remarks
First, it is necessary to sketch the role, functions and reporting systems of UN Special Procedures. Amongst the various mechanisms open to the UN Human Rights Council to monitor and review human rights issues, special procedures are relatively under-researched6but, given high profile recent visits, they are arguably the most identifiable, albeit m...
Official visits of mandate holders to the UK include meetings with a range of government ministries as well as with representatives of devolved administrations and local government.38 Generally access is unfettered and there appear no reports of reprisals against those interacting with the special procedures in the UK, though there have been formal...
It is interesting to contrast these responses aimed at a UK audience with the actual comments made in Parliament and in the UN Human Rights Council when the report on the UK was tabled and discussed. Here, Cohen’s stages of denial are again evident, but this time focussed on the international arena.91Rhetoric is more tempered and diplomatic, as one...
First, it is axiomatic that government responses reflecting Cohen’s stages of denial are not unique to the UK. Many, if not most, states are resistant to findings of special procedures, and indeed treaty bodies. Human rights remain sensitive as indeed does the fact that these UN mechanisms can investigate, monitor and report on what many states sti...
- Rhona K M Smith
- 2021
The online groups he joined - opposed to vaccines and masks - exposed him to completely unfounded conspiracies about sinister global plots behind the Covid-19 pandemic. Groups on Telegram ...
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Denial refers to activities and pro-grams designed to eliminate, impair, degrade, or neutralize the efective-ness of intelligence collection within and across any or all collection disci-plines, human and technical.
