About this blog

This is a blog about the hidden properties of deception in communication, based on rigorous academic research, presented here in an easily accessible way.

You can find my academic (and therefore long!) CV here.

Please subscribe or bookmark the blog to learn about my research on the language of fake news and the hidden properties of deception that I have uncovered in my data, including false 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.

The idea behind the blog is to serve as a foundation for a book on the same topic, based on your valuable feedback along the way.

To give feedback, simply leave a comment under the post! 😊

Cheers,
Nele