Disinformation — The Silent Enemy of Peace

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Across
  1. 3. A space where opinions bounce off the walls and return louder, not wiser.
  2. 4. The backstage choreographer deciding which posts step into your spotlight.
  3. 5. A fake persona used to pretend one person is a crowd.
  4. 11. A crafted untruth launched on purpose, not by accident.
  5. 14. The moment a fringe rumor gets a megaphone and becomes everyone’s problem.
  6. 17. A convenient excuse that hides the real motive.
  7. 18. A deliberate prank built to fool, not just to entertain.
  8. 19. A methodical comparison between a statement and the world it pretends to describe.
  9. 20. The surrounding details that turn an isolated clip back into reality.
Down
  1. 1. The habit of checking before cheering or sharing.
  2. 2. The origin of a claim—the place you go to see whether the story started clean.
  3. 6. Messaging that cares more about loyalty and feeling than it does about balance.
  4. 7. A careful unmasking that shows why a claim stumbles when evidence enters the room.
  5. 8. The art of rotating facts until they catch the light you prefer.
  6. 9. The overarching storyline that connects events into meaning—sometimes selectively.
  7. 10. A preventive heads-up that explains common tricks before they’re tried on you.
  8. 12. The tilt in our thinking that makes familiar stories look taller than they are.
  9. 13. An army of automated accounts that never sleeps and never blushes.
  10. 15. A mistaken claim passed along in good faith but still wrong.
  11. 16. The act of deciding which information gets through the door and which waits outside.