The recent stories involving Rep. George Santos and SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried) have something big in common: They serve as powerful reminders that anyone can be duped by lies. By Pamela Meyer, certified fraud examiner and expert in deception detection.

Pamela’s editorial identifies three subtle but contagious forms of deception that are ruining our culture.

Pamela dives deep into cognitive load, deception detection technology, and the role of bias in developing trust, in this far reaching podcast with Chris Parker.

Describing Trumps strategy, Pamela explains, “A good liar intuitively knows what it is you want to hear, dangles it out in front of you just when you need it…”

When someone insistently implores, “believe me,”–don’t.

Can you learn to spot a liar?

Even babies fake cries, Pamela explains.

If you master these ten tips, you’ll know when it’s time to ask harder questions and you’ll know if Sarah Palin is telling the truth, the next time she tweets “U Lie” to Rahm.

A deception epidemic is upon us. When confronted with difficult decisions, don’t act while the judicious, fair-minded, and enlightened jury–even if it’s only the one in your own head–is still out.

Here are four tips for keeping from being lied to and to catch it when it happens.

“Lying has destroyed careers and convulsed countries” Pamela explains.

Pamela explains how Trump, a con man, identifies marks and plays to their “darker instincts.”