Orwellian language
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 Orwellian language  (propaganda technique)   | |
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| Founder(s) | George Orwell |
| Language chosen to hide rather than expose the truth. | |
Orwellian language is language chosen to hide the truth, especially language which inverts the truth.
Etymology
The phrase is a refence to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, a dystopian novel about a totalitarian superstate which uses perpetual war against one or both of its two competing superstates to keep the large majority of its population in poverty and ignorance.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| "Continuity of Government" | |
| "Counter-extremism" | |
| "Counter-terrorism" | |
| "Fact checker" | |
| "Free market" | |
| "National security" | |
| "Non-violent extremism" | |
| "Radicalisation" | |
| "Security service" | |
| Committee on Public Information | |
| Fact checking | |
| Integrity Initiative | "An extremely shady covert disinformation and anti-democratic deep state outfit" that was caught promoting Russophobic propaganda and later deleted its website. |
| Memory hole |
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