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bubadmt 81 points ago +81 / -0

Circular reporting, a la Mockingbird-style journalists. Outlet A reports an anonymous bullshit report, then outlet B reports on their report. Outlet C then reports it as "multiple sources now claiming". Rinse and repeat.

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MAGACountryResident 18 points ago +18 / -0

People also choose what they want to believe and what they don’t. I have brainwashed liberal friends and I sent them a link from Right Wing Tribune that was about a big online child porn ring got shut down and hundreds of people were arrested and was pretty neutral in my comments just saying something like “Good fuck these disgusting pedos” and my one friend absolutely REFUSED to believe it was true because it from a source called Right Wing Tribune. He just responded “that’s fake” and when I asked how he said that website was debunked as fake by some bullshit lefty news source and then I provided him with other links that reported the same thing and they were left leaning, he still refused to believe it saying Right Wing Tribune was fake and they have been wrong about so many things, it’s the same with this election shit. These looney leftists will believe what they want and discount any hard evidence as hearsay and bullshit.

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fisterbot92 7 points ago +7 / -0

Gellman's amnesia effect in reverse. What the fuck?