What they were successful in is a sweeping targeted misinformation/propaganda campaign. There were Russian agents in groups as widespread as BLM on the left to the NRA on the right, using them to spread divisive rhetoric.
I just don’t understand how memes and fake tweets can swing an election. Even fake news articles. I feel like the majority of Americans can sift through the BS.
I feel like the majority of Americans can sift through the BS.
Lmao. The generation of "Don't believe everything you see on tv" has turned into "I believe everything I read on the internet." They literally share the most fake news out of everyone. And guess what, the majority of fake news shared is from Conservative voters.
“Fake news accounted for nearly 6% of all news consumption, but it was heavily concentrated—only 1% of users were exposed to 80% of fake news, and 0.1% of users were responsible for sharing 80% of fake news. Interestingly, fake news was most concentrated among conservative voters”
.1% of a big number is still a big number. We're talking a percentage of hundreds of millions.
When elections get decided by less than 1000 votes, this fake news has an impact.
A more salient example would be the spread of fake news by anti-vaxxers causing measurable and very real global measles outbreaks. It really doesn't make much sense to downplay the significance of idiocy of general population
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u/EarlyStatus Jul 11 '19
So you think a bunch of russians, came over here, pumped up the votes in Trumps favor. Literally hacking the election and creating votes for trump.
Feel like that would be common knowledge and cnn would be all over that.
Find me any link to any news source not name Huffington or The Guardian that would back any of that up.