Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
by tsimionescu on Saturday February 06, 2021 @06:23PM
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QAnon wasn't created an popularized by some institution repeating a lie. It isn't even propaganda per se, it's a grass roots conspiracy theory, fanned by propaganda on certain particular facts (such as election fraud). It's the result of decades of bigger and smaller lies and truths being spun by various forces until they coalesced into this mess. There isn't some central Big Lie that QAnon believers have been fed, except perhaps the oldest lie - it's Us vs Them, and We are righteous while They are evil.
"Q" wrote his initial lies once, and people ate it up and spun it around among themselves. This is folklore, not propaganda.
Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
by dragonwriter on Saturday February 06, 2021 @05:51PM
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> half of the United States still believes Donald Trump really won a second term
The polls I've seen show between 67%-80% accepting the result as correct; none support anything like half believing Trump won.
Re:The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
by throwawayboise on Saturday February 06, 2021 @06:36PM
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Irrational overreaction? I've posted elsewhere that I vote R but I had never heard of Qanon until the left started freaking out about it and made it news.
It seems to me like it works better than it ever has.