1 definition by Forgiver
In politics, a countermeasure to Free Speech protections whereby threatening information is discredited by associating it with already-discredited information.
Citizen journalists are publishing articles about how our healthcare reform bill is really designed to work in favor of our interests and at the expense of minorities! We can't censor them! Quick! Publish a bunch of Chaff about UFOs and a Flat Earth and link it to their sites! That way it'll look like only conspiracy theorists view this kind of stuff and no one will take it seriously!
Yes, I know that when you see this book about the War on Amazon it says that all the customers also purchased books about Nazism and Holocaust denial, but that's just Chaff intended to make it look guilty by association.
Yes, I know that when you see this book about the War on Amazon it says that all the customers also purchased books about Nazism and Holocaust denial, but that's just Chaff intended to make it look guilty by association.
by Forgiver July 26, 2017