June 2016
Marc Gafni on Malice and the Victim Triangle
In this video, Marc Gafni elaborates on the unpopular topic of malice and the victim triangle: Often the motivation for false complaints is simply malice. Now, malice is not a word that we like to relate to. Malice is something [...]
Marc Gafni on Manipulating through the Confirmation Bias in Service of Untruth
In this video, Dr. Marc Gafni addresses three reasons why false complaints against a powerful man are so easy to make and so easy to have stick. One of the reasons we have come to call confirmation bias. The first [...]
Marc Gafni on Sexual McCarthyism
In this video, Marc Gafni talks about the important topic of "Sexual McCarthyism." This term draws a parallel between the way Senator McCarthy used the valid criticism on Communism to discredit political opponents (= McCarthyism) and the way our important [...]
Marc Gafni on Digital Abuse: Google Results
In this video clip, Dr. Marc Gafni distinguishes between Freedom of speech and the new phenomenon of Internet abuse, which we barely know how to engage it. He argues: Freedom of speech is obviously one of our core values. On [...]
Marc Gafni on Name Rape
In this video, Marc Gafni addresses the suffering imposed on people by what is referred to in the literature as Name Rape in a very personal way. He points out that often, until we experience a particular kind of suffering [...]
Marc Gafni on Digital Abuse: Crowdsourcing a Witch Hunt
In this clip, Dr. Marc Gafni talks about the use of the internet for crowdsourcing a witch hunt: One of the core features of Internet abuse is the ability to crowdsource a witch hunt. What does it mean to crowdsource [...]
Marc Gafni on Deploying the Myth of Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire – The Playbook
In this video, Marc Gafni reveals the myth of Where there is smoke there is fire and the hidden playbook of a smear campaign. He says: I learned about this playbook and I want to share it, because it’s so [...]