• Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz
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    I continue to find it odd that in this day and age, with all the information at our fingertips, someone can lie on one TV channel and someone will believe it without even so much as a quick Google to fact check.

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      In response to the tsunami of propaganda and falsehoods on the Internet, some people decide they simply won’t care about facts anymore because it’s easier.

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        This is how Russia is today. No one knows what the truth is, so they accept whatever they want and ignore the rest.

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          Russia benefits from the western approach that when two sides are argue they do it in a good faith, so the truth is in the middle.

          This is why the firehose of falsehoods works so well. The victims know that a lot of it are lies, but they also believe that some of it has to be truth.

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        I feel like that’s a lot of people on a lot of things in life.

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      Not only that, but the fact Twitter has a better mechanism for this with community notes than most media.

      How the F- do these media companies air a snippet of him lying without immediately following it up with the facts. The fact that his lies are not even news anymore just saddens me to no end. And it emboldens other psychopaths around the world.

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        Because then the Donald would stop giving interviews and then they will lose revenue

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      Tbf Google’s AI will hallucinate and out and out lie to you depending on what question you ask it, so maybe it isn’t the best source. I agree it amazes me that people can lie like this and not be checked for questioned… And Google use to be the best way to check. Unfortunately it isn’t any more. And various news sites have their own agenda and won’t always tell you the truth either. Unfortunately I dont know of any source you can quickly check and get a definitive and unequivocal answer any more and I think people like trump understand and exploit this.

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        It’s true that Google is now a pile of shit for targeted searching of a topic, but if you just searched for any claim like “biden convicted documents” I’m sure you would at least not get a list of articles confirming the lie.

        EDIT: I just searched the above and it’s just a long list of “biden won’t face charges”, “no charges for biden” and even some “trump falsely claims biden was convicted” already

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          Yeah, but in the qon cinematic universe, “Big Tech” is in the pocket of liberals (lol). So they cannot trust Google’s search results, at least if it counters their worldview.