单词 | false flag |
释义 | false flagnoun plural false flags 1 : a hostile or harmful action (such as an attack) that is designed to look like it was perpetrated by someone other than the person or group responsible for it In case you didn't know, a false flag is an incident that is designed to deceive people into thinking it was actually carried out by someone else. … ex-House of Commons clerk Eliot Wilson argues in an article for the paper that "it does not take the mind of a conspiracy theorist" to imagine that Downing Street may have been behind what now appears to have been a false flag. —often used before another noun a false flag operationfalse flag attacksThe false flag conspiracy theory circulated widely after the riot … 2 : a deliberate misrepresentation of motives or identity Maybe more troublesome is the fact that a small percentage of sources were recruited under false flags or based on coercion. also : something used to misrepresent motives or identity The Russian hackers had attempted to blame North Korea, China and other adversaries as the culprit of those assaults through a series of false flags implanted in the malware that were designed to throw investigators off track. "Craft" is a false flag, a depoliticization of art and thus an undermining of art's ability to change or even to question the status quo. 3 : a flag used to disguise the identity of something (such as a ship) |
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