# 15. Linguistic manipulation ## 15.5. Methodology/Refinements/Sub-species ### 15.5.4. Syntactic manipulation #### 15.5.4.8. Utterance Context Here a manipulator takes advantage of complex reports to alter the references between sentences. For instance, "Black youths attacked police whilst white youths looted shops" can become "Black and white youths attacked police and looted shops". The references back to the subjects are being deliberately confused in the second version of this report.