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This is a lovely article reminding us how Bannon-and-friends’ pizzagate strategy works. This is the most important take-away from the article:
While the claims have not been repeated by any mainstream media outlets, that does not mean that they have not had their intended effect. Phillips, the Syracuse assistant professor, said the goal of the rumors isn't necessarily to make people believe the claims, but to confuse and disillusion voters into distrusting any piece of information and, in turn, keep them from wanting to vote at all.
"All 'flooding the zone with s--t' does is just make reasonable people not want to engage," said Phillips. "So then the screamers and the people on the far, far, far-right take over the discourse, and then that means no one can have a discourse."
As you have likely noticed, lately social media has seen a barrage of pizzagate-style accusations against Hunter Biden. Count the number of threads on this site on Hunter Biden, you’ll see what I mean.
The goal isn’t to provide credible evidence that leads to prosecution. Their goal is to generate buzz and turn voters on the fence to just not vote.
How to combat this campaign of disinformation?
1. Ignore posts that discuss Hunter Biden
2. Do not repeat the baseless claims elsewhere
3. Vote. (This is the most important.)
The huge early voting is already showing the spectacular failure of this disinformation campaign. But we can always do better by bringing awareness to voters and actively combat disinformation rumor mills like the one cited in this article.
This is a lovely article reminding us how Bannon-and-friends’ pizzagate strategy works. This is the most important take-away from the article:
While the claims have not been repeated by any mainstream media outlets, that does not mean that they have not had their intended effect. Phillips, the Syracuse assistant professor, said the goal of the rumors isn't necessarily to make people believe the claims, but to confuse and disillusion voters into distrusting any piece of information and, in turn, keep them from wanting to vote at all.
"All 'flooding the zone with s--t' does is just make reasonable people not want to engage," said Phillips. "So then the screamers and the people on the far, far, far-right take over the discourse, and then that means no one can have a discourse."
As you have likely noticed, lately social media has seen a barrage of pizzagate-style accusations against Hunter Biden. Count the number of threads on this site on Hunter Biden, you’ll see what I mean.
The goal isn’t to provide credible evidence that leads to prosecution. Their goal is to generate buzz and turn voters on the fence to just not vote.
How to combat this campaign of disinformation?
1. Ignore posts that discuss Hunter Biden
2. Do not repeat the baseless claims elsewhere
3. Vote. (This is the most important.)
The huge early voting is already showing the spectacular failure of this disinformation campaign. But we can always do better by bringing awareness to voters and actively combat disinformation rumor mills like the one cited in this article.
Now THIS is a prime example of Russian misinformation. Thank you for point this out so we know what to look for..
The people perpetuating this crap have zero decency. They are destroying this nation for political gain with little regard to the consequences.
They have learned to use social media to exploit people. It can be effective if people are unaware. The most effective way to combat them is through education, similar to how we had to educate people on spam emails and clicking on links. Education is power!
Take everything said or implied about Biden since 2016 when Trump entered politics, and Biden is still a loser based on past actions and performance, so I am just not seeing that any kind of "gate" is what has impacted the opinions or changed someone's mind about Biden, a highly flawed candidate.
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