4mo ago

Republican legislators (but not Democrats) who share low-credibility info get rewarded with more clicks

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Because they feel like they’re getting special secret information from the in group.
Whereas sensible people are more likely to side eye that nonsense, or at least ask for a source.
What if the left starts a propaganda campaign flooding twitter and truth social with low effort blog spam that looks like sensational low-credibility garbage but is actually factual and correct?
- Might not work if it doesn't reinforce the reader's preexisting biases, but it's worth a shot.
  
  Yeah, gotta watch out for that but there are underlying thought patterns that aren't rooted in a political party. A great example is Harris's "weird" campaign. All she did was call out Republican behavior as "weird" and it really got under their skin. Conservatives have a deathly fear of being excluded from the in-group. Calling them weird clawed at that fear and got them to react. It's low-brow, but it worked.