ELI5
ELI5
Examples:
investment banking
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mephedrone
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neural decoding
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ethics
,
literature
Character assassination
Character assassination is when someone tries to make another person look bad. They might do this by telling lies or spreading rumors to make the other person look bad. It's a way to hurt their reputation and make other people think less of them.
Related topics others have asked about:
Black propaganda
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Damnatio memoriae
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Fair game (Scientology)
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Hollywood blacklist
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Information warfare
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Kompromat
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McCarthyism
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Noisy investigation
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Personal attack
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Pittura infamante
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Smear campaign
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Social undermining