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Accurate Answers

This is the biochemical responsible for the octopus' ability to change color in an instant:
-ANSWER Melanin



Which of the following definitions most precisely matches the term propaganda?



-Information intended to deceive people by giving them incorrect information, specific
untruths.

-Describes what a sentence means rather than what it states literally.

-Misleading statements to draw one to the wrong conclusion without lying outright.

Disinformation: An organized system of tricking the minds of peoples into accepting an
idea by deliberately distorted information, which is secretly introduced into the
communications process to deceive and mislead.

Statements which are not true but which are not deliberately planned to mislead. -
ANSWER Information intended to provide false knowledge, specific untruths.

Which is the best definition of misinformation?.



-Information intended to fool people, detailed lies.

-Describing what a sentence says in general rather than what is literally said.

- Misleading statements that are designed to lead another person to the wrong
conclusion without actual lying.

- An extremely concerted effort to make populations believe something with an idea by
using, on purpose, skewed information that is clandestinely leaked into the
communication process so as to fool or manipulate.

Claims that are not true but not deliberately made to mislead - ANSWER Claims that are
not true but not deliberately made to mislead.

Disinformation Which of the following best defines disinformation? - ANSWER A very

,structured attempt to fool society into believing something by using purposeful
distortion of information is packaged in a way to secretly feed it into the
communications system to lie and mislead.



Implicature-which of the following definitions fits best? -ANSWER Describes what a
sentence means rather than what it states literally.



Which of the following best characterizes what Russian "Active Measures." attempt to
achieve?



The goal would be to foster greater collaborative relationships between countries in
order to grapple rationally and rigorously with major challenges the world is facing
today, including but not limited to global warming, income and racial inequality, and the
stifling of free speech and its attendant responsibilities.

To alter the perceptions of reality of every American to such an extent that, despite an
abundance of information, no one is able to come to a sensible conclusion in the
interests of defending themselves, their family, their community, and their country.
ANSWER - To shift the reality perception of every American so dramatically that despite
an abundance of information no one is able to come to a sensible conclusion in the
interest of defending themselves, their family, their community, and their country.



Who were the presidents of US and Russia in 1987? - ANSWER Ronald Reagan, Mikhail
Gorbachev



The first known major successes of Russian Active Measure were convincing large
numbers of people that:



The US moon landing was faked

The Russians had colonized Mars

The United States created HIV, the AIDS virus, in an US Army laboratory

Extraterrestrials masquerading as humans have infiltrated the highest levels of the US
government

- The US has created a new rage virus that makes humans uncontrollably violent -

, ANSWER The United States created HIV, the AIDS virus, in an US Army laboratory



Which 3 are not one of the "7 commandments" of Active Measures?



- Exploit chinks/divisions in the target society

- Develop and spread inspiring stories of the indomitable human spirit

- Invent a major and audacious lie

- Cloak the lie in the kernel of truth

- The hand is hidden

- Take responsibility of the message you create

Useful idiot

Never confess to it

Travel companion hire only moral, ethical and considerate people

Long game -ANSWER- Create and circulate positive stories of humanity

Take responsibility of the message you create

Hire moral, ethical and considerate people as travel companions



The best definition of vaccine is



- A chemically synthesized small molecule that induces a protective response of the
cells in the immune system

- A Bill Gates-led plot to implant 5G tracking devices for the purposes of tracking and/or
mind control

- An inactivated or attenuated pathogen or a component of a pathogen-nucleic acid,
protein-that induces a protective response of the cells in the immune system.

- A naturally occurring product of a plant that elicits a protective immune response in
cells of the immune system. - A virus infecting human cells elicits a protective response
of the cells in the immune system - ANSWER An inactivated or attenuated pathogen, or
part of a pathogen, such as nucleic acid or protein, that elicits a protective immune
response of the cells in the immune system.

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