β’ Get verification from official Scottish Government sources when something serious has happened (5/5)
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Heads up (see Page 22):
https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30874.pdf
How you can contribute to our collective resilience:
β’ Be mindful of content that elicits a strong reaction.
β’ Only share information you know comes from reliable sources.
β’ Try to verify information from several different sources. (4/5)
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β’ Manufacturing fake images, videos or voice recordings.
β’ Attempts to elicit strong emotions related to certain issues or events to heighten a sense of worry or suspicion towards each other. (3/5)
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The goal of these actions is to sow mistrust and erode our will to defend ourselves.
Those seeking to influence us may do so in the following ways:
β’ Spreading lies, false narratives, or stories that are partially true, but taken out of context. (2/5)
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Psychological defence
Foreign powers and others outwith Scotland use disinformation, misinformation and propaganda to influence us.
Attempts to influence us, primarily through mainstream media, online platforms and social media, occur on a daily basis. (1/5)
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Together w/h Christina Alnevall, @elsahedling.bsky.social & @christierns.bsky.social speaking in the very first panel of FPF yearly conference, aptly dealing with Gendered Disinformation. Lund University generously welcomed us all at Biskopshuset. #polisky #socialresilience #psychologicaldefence
Mechanisms Used to Downplay COVID
Denial
Projection
Displacement
Compartmentalization
Reaction formation
Rationalization
Intellectualization
Defence mechanisms page 100 of the textbook.Β Β
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