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Fear mongering 

Also called scare tactic. This is a strategy that various governments and news media uses in order to scare you into agreeing with their policies or points of view that usually involves some kind of protection or banning something which thus enacts more and more useless laws. This also helps keep the population under control as a scared population is easier to control and is more trusting of the government.

They usually fear monger by exaggerating the story or accounting of the events by using massive hyperboles, speak of the object from a negative standpoint and never from a neutral standpoint, use certain rhetorical words such as "dangerous", "lethal", "contagious", or "aggressive" and use only partial truth or no truth at all (aka lies). Usually true journalism and research is completely non-existent when using fear mongering techniques. When the story or segments airs on TV, they also use menacing or disturbing music to further bring out a fearful mood out of the viewers.
The government and media were using fear mongering when they talk about any sort of bacteria or virus.
Fear mongering by Digital Preacher January 10, 2015

Share Mongering 

The use of social media to spread largely baseless and misleading stories designed to scare the reader. Predominantly created by the tin foil hat brigade.
I see that Belinda has been Share Mongering on Facebook again.
Share Mongering by bob^ May 8, 2015

war mongering 

Selling a war to an unsuspecting public.
The seller, often a chickenhawk could be anyone with influence, such as an elected official or a talk radio blowhard, who paints the best possible picture of war, ignores the negative aspects of war, and warns of dire consequences of not going to war. Often war mongering hides behind patriotism and the loyalty of troops to deflect criticism.
By mentioning mushroom clouds, Shrub was war mongering, selling Americans a war by using fear tactics.

The war mongering Rush Limpbag said anyone against going to war was not supporting the troops.
war mongering by Joe E. King April 12, 2008

point mongering

The act of actively analyzing a graded test, project, paper, etc. for the sole purpose of finding an error in the instructor's ways and "getting back" points to achieve a higher score.
"Why is Keegan arguing with the teacher?" "He's point mongering."
point mongering by Doctor_T September 24, 2011

shit mongering

coined by the famous Laura of mewing.net, shit mongering is a term used for all the fake patriotism that popped up after 9-11, using American gullibility to sweep up a surge of selective blindedness so that the population didn't realise it was a sham made by the president, and decided it was okay for him to go blow up Iraq because it was in the interest of pure patriotism.
The president decided that the Jackson family would not be terminated or killed in a "plane crash" Wellstone style because they supported his sham by hanging up their eagle adorned flag and sending their children off to die murderers for no reason but greed.
shit mongering by discolemonade July 12, 2004

E-Mongering 

I used to prowl the streets looking for prostitutes but now I spend all my time online E-Mongering.
E-Mongering by Randy Ray August 23, 2010
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Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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