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Easy answer. Super easy. Not easy to happen, but easy to give a valid answer.
Fox News would just have to have it as a talking point with a huge swath of their propagandists agreeing and all of them talking about it.
You could literally say "people that are outside for any amount of time on (insert random date about 2 weeks out or so) will gain the ability to fly and if you add a part about it relieving joint and back pain permanently if activated from height I guarantee you'd see a huge increase in deaths by falling from heights.
Red cities would just have old people splattered all over the sidewalks.
And the world would be a better place immediately.
I hate so much that you’re 100% correct.
We should find some way to get access to Fox's social medias to test this out
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.
Russian twitter bots did it, don't see why we can't do it
I mean go for it I guess.