The assumption is that liars betray themselves through spikes in those signals.
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Brian O'Neill,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2026
The attempts to save Platner in the high stakes campaign to defeat Republican incumbent Susan Collins involved portraying Platner’s accusers, women, as vengeful liars.
Some saw the other cheaters get away with it and concluded the prompt forbidding cheating had no teeth—that there wouldn’t be any punishment for cheating.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
8 Sep. 2026
The emerald green lawns of cheaters now abut the crispy brown grass of the rule-followers — defiance that’s visible for all to see.
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