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What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Russian twitter bots did it, don't see why we can't do it

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

I mean go for it I guess.