Nah, it would have to be the Fox News style full court press deception to have the intended effect.
Most people would be convinced something is true if a huge swathe of people they trust say it’s true. (Myself included. I just try my best to vet trustworthy sources to begin with.)
Fox News accomplishes this by getting you to distrust all other sources and then serve you a variety of “charismatic personalities” all parroting the same propaganda. This is how they cultivate false consensus.
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Nah, it would have to be the Fox News style full court press deception to have the intended effect.
Most people would be convinced something is true if a huge swathe of people they trust say it’s true. (Myself included. I just try my best to vet trustworthy sources to begin with.)
Fox News accomplishes this by getting you to distrust all other sources and then serve you a variety of “charismatic personalities” all parroting the same propaganda. This is how they cultivate false consensus.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Russian twitter bots did it, don’t see why we can’t do it
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
I mean go for it I guess.