Spoofed Signal

Hate movements don’t invent new tricks. They run six old ones, very well, on whoever didn’t recognize the playbook.

The headlines change. The villains change. The targets change. The six recurring techniques — manufactured enemies, fear amplification, scapegoating, false dichotomy, conspiracy logic, dehumanizing language — do not. Once you can name them, you can spot them. Once you can spot them, they stop landing on you.

Spoofed Signal is a 21-day illustrated field guide to the six techniques and the four counter-moves: prebunking, the pause, source-and-motive, humanizing the target. Practical, plainspoken where it counts, wry where it can be.