DISINFORMATION:
Tactics Used to Mislead, Misdirect and Deceive
Disinformation is information that is intended to deceive, mislead and distract. (Unlike misinfomation, defined as information that is incorrect.)
People's stories are often similar and their explanations for what is happening to them (their whys) are often stories heard over and over. These are often called "scripts", and the ACLA (along with many other groups and individuals) believes that individuals are manipulated into believing these scripts.
Common scripts involve celebrities, child molesters, court cases (that the victim is often already involved in), the FBI and a number of common conspiracy theories. Many scripts overlap. For example, one individual was not only an investigator in a criminal investigation of alleged child molesters, but was manipulated into believing she was being victimized by a very well-known director. (Odder still, one of the alleged child molesters was an officer in the army, perpetuating the script even further.)
One woman (a writer in LA) was manipulated into believing she was being victimized by a producer, who (she was led to believe) was planning on suing her. She was also led to believe that he was not only a child molester, but part of a "ring" of child molesters (who, in an over-the-top flourish, killed and ate the children he molested). She eventually proved that the individual was not who he claimed to be and that the story was a heavily scripted lie. These are only two stories out of many involving celebrities, lawsuits, child molestors and neighbor harassment (see myth #2 under misinformation).
There are also linguistic similarities in the acoustic manipulation that occurs, odd phrases heard repeatedly from person to person, that helps to give away the use of this technology itself.
Disinformation is believed not only because individuals are being manipulated, but because they are rational people who seek reasons for why they're undergoing their ordeal, even though the actual reason may be completely random. It's therefore sometimes very difficult for them to give up belief in the scripts they were, very early on, manipulated into believing.