Media Effects
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Media Effects
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Information-quality asymmetry aphorism
Brandolini's Law
Why producing a misleading claim can be cheap while checking, explaining, and correcting it is slow.
Censorship-backfire pattern
Streisand Effect
An attempt to suppress public information can sometimes make that information more visible by creating news value, curiosity, documentation, and coordinated redistribution.
Online-discussion observation and counter-meme
Godwin's Law
As an online discussion continues, the chance that someone invokes Hitler or the Nazis tends to rise, because more turns create more opportunities for an extreme historical analogy.
Media heuristic
Betteridge's Law of Headlines
A headline phrased as a yes-or-no question can often be answered "no," especially when the evidence is too weak to support the stronger declarative claim.
Online-communication aphorism
Poe's Law
Without a clear signal of intent, an extreme parody can be indistinguishable from a sincere extreme position to at least some readers.