Only 1/4 of Republicans surveyed believe the election wasn't fraudulent according to a poll today. Clearly, not objective reality. Do you think that this is
a) the result of Google or
b) the result of FoxNews, and other Mercer/Koch/Murdoch owned media/radio continuously amplifying and echoing these claims?
If Google has so much power, why can't they convince 3/4s of Republicans that water is wet? Like literally, 42 lost court cases, court dockets where the Republican governors and secretaries of states conducted investigations and debunked all of the specious "evidence" (e.g. the "suitcases from under the table" video), and yet this gaslighting continues.
The Trump administration has undermined the credibility of all of our institutions, the latest being the scientific / medical community and democratic institutions. He does this by spreading baseless lies on social media with made up facts, some of them so preposterous that they've essentially 8chan/8kun posts. This then gets spread far and wide on social media and conservative TV and Radio as a mind virus.
And yet, the problem is Google has too much power to fact check this motherlode of bullshit.
Well clearly, this power sucks, because for all of its scary capability, it clearly can't burst the bubble of people who have been gaslit into a shitgibbon's cult.
I don't disagree about Republicans. I am just stating a fact. Google has too much power.
But you have to realize something about how conservatives get their news. They are extremely loyal to a small number of sources and rely heavily on peer-to-peer amplification of right-wing memes. Google has nothing on the Facebook and good-ole-boy networks. They inherently distrust Google and the internet and any "mainstream" media. All Trump has to do is say "The left-wing Google" and it sticks in their heads like a thorn. They trust people they know in real life, and as soon as their friends are repeating they catchphrases, they believe it.
a) the result of Google or
b) the result of FoxNews, and other Mercer/Koch/Murdoch owned media/radio continuously amplifying and echoing these claims?
If Google has so much power, why can't they convince 3/4s of Republicans that water is wet? Like literally, 42 lost court cases, court dockets where the Republican governors and secretaries of states conducted investigations and debunked all of the specious "evidence" (e.g. the "suitcases from under the table" video), and yet this gaslighting continues.
The Trump administration has undermined the credibility of all of our institutions, the latest being the scientific / medical community and democratic institutions. He does this by spreading baseless lies on social media with made up facts, some of them so preposterous that they've essentially 8chan/8kun posts. This then gets spread far and wide on social media and conservative TV and Radio as a mind virus.
And yet, the problem is Google has too much power to fact check this motherlode of bullshit.
Well clearly, this power sucks, because for all of its scary capability, it clearly can't burst the bubble of people who have been gaslit into a shitgibbon's cult.