the_dunk_tank

if "de-bunking" is "to remove bunkum by discrediting it" then surely "pre-bunking" is "to fill with bunkum in advance"

Get small tidbits of information into people early so that when you drop huge propaganda on people later they believe it without question.

This works best with the ludicrously absurd. You can make up some complete and utter bullshit that's entirely unverifiable, just absurd stories, then later on these absurd stories you've done earlier actually make your absurd propaganda seem plausible because it's the place where all the absurd whacky shit you heard about earlier happens.

Places like /r/anormaldayinrussia for example helped to make a lot of the absurd stories and propaganda that has come out sound plausible. It pre-bunked people.

You could say “prebunking” is what happened back when I listened to a ton of “anti-communist arguments debunked” stuff before I’d even heard the arguments.

Preboonk is the little boonk that comes before the big boonk

I'm going to debooooonk.

I've heard of a related thing where people will propagate easily-debunkable info claiming "Russia/China/BadCountry is saying this" along with a debunk of it. So falsely setting out that BadCountry is "lying" about some issue so if BadCountry later publishes credible things they can undermine it with "well they already lied about it here".

For example, publishing a badly-photoshopped photo of the USS Eisenhower with a crater on its deck saying it came from China, and then pointing out the bad photoshop.

Is Pre-bunking a euphemism for getting ready to sleep with and cuddle your dad in a nice bunkbed

here at the virtual meta airbnb we only charge a skibidi fanum tax for a prebunked bed

It's a form of brainwashing called "innoculation theory"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation_theory

Or how to create rabid defense force any time your side is challenged. Russiagate was a massive innoculation theory practice. Critical of NATO? Well you must be a Russian bot!