Doublethink

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

China, which claims Taiwan as its own, targeted the island with a stream of disinformation ahead of its election, according to research from DoubleThink Lab.

DoubleThink Lab’s analysis uncovered 1,153 accounts that primarily repost news and promotions about cryptocurrency and are likely bots deployed by engagement boosting services to raise their clients’ visibility on social media.

The result was a kind of strategic doublethink.

A so-called budget deficit as an economic or mathematical reality is an exercise in doublethink fiction.

Doublethink, Alberta Tory style … Sorry, really, but who’s this Alison Redford person?

Though perhaps the most brazen, the current federal government is hardly alone in engaging in this rather expedient bit of doublethink.

We need to be aware of the power of doublethink and how the authorities (seen and unseen) use it if we are to strive for a transition back to consciousness and self-realization.

Although the term is not used in the book, it is a close relative of one of the book's central concepts, " doublethink ".