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Originally Posted by finnbow
If it appears the volume of deception coming from MAGA Republicans is increasing, that is because it is. Two academics from New York University set about documenting the proliferation of rubbish in a study they described this week for The Post’s Monkey Cage feature. They found that 36 percent of the news that Republican congressional candidates shared on social media came from unreliable sources on an average day from January to July, up from 8 percent for the same period in 2020. (The news shared by Democratic candidates from unreliable sources rose to 2 percent from 1 percent.)…
It is disinformation Darwinism: Falsify more, or fade away; become more outrageous, or perish. The ceiling of crazy in one cycle becomes the floor in the next.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...op-lies-qanon/ |
Interesting, though entirely self serving. I suspect, for example, that WaPo is regarded as a "reliable source", no matter that they publish poorly sourced stories which later turn out to be less than accurate.