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by strategyanalyst 1981 days ago
TV News channels kept on aggressively fact checking Trump, I just don't know if it had any impact on the real danger of people believing his lies.

These moves would eventually lower trust in Big Tech among conservatives to a point that more conspiracy theories will rise.

This makes methink we are about to see a Golden Age of conspiracy theories. Something that makes 'Q Annon' stuff look like peer reviewed paper in science.

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If you take conspiracy theories and remove the thin thread of logic, you’re just left with propaganda... so it seems like we’re already starting to see what you’re predicting.
> TV News channels kept on aggressively fact checking Trump

I am not convinced that Fox News did that, aggressively.

Yes, that is a scenario I'm talking about. Splintered internet where conspiracy theories will be common.