I’ve heard it used a million times before but never had anyone explain it to me and I feel stupid.
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Plausible deniability is the ability to deny any involvement in illegal or unethical activities, because there is no clear evidence to prove involvement. The lack of evidence makes the denial credible, or plausible. The use of the tactic implies forethought, such as intentionally setting up the conditions to plausibly avoid responsibility for one’s future actions.
For example in movies you see this a lot: If you’re a mob boss and you have a rival and you say to one of your henchmen “it’d be unfortunate if something happened to x”. You’re not directly saying “I want you to hurt X” so there’s no concrete evidence that you’re responsible for the action of X gets hurt by your henchman
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