Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by spuz on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:53AM
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What if you weight dislike by the number of people? There are surely more people who believe 5G doesn't cause COVID than those who do.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by hef19898 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:30AM
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Propably wouldn't work, as the minority is much more liuder and active than the majority.
Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours
by pornel on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:55AM
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Some myths and conspiracy theories are dangerously close to being believed by the majority of people:
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/30/951095644/even-if-its-bonkers...
so in the end you have to anchor this to some expertise and grounded-in-reality judgement.
For example, the majority in the aforementioned poll believed that COVID-19 was created in a lab in China. And to be honest, an average person really has no way of truly knowing this. They're not virologists or spies. They can only judge based on a gut feeling whether China is/isn't evil, and that is likely based on other things they've heard, which may include rumors, propaganda and Bond movies.