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[–] mgtzbos@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How incredible to see the effect of political messaging on citizen/voter perception. It is that the exaggerations, lies, and outrage marketing clearly have an outsized effect. I wouldn’t say the US population is dumb. But I would say the manipulation of perception is too much for the average person to do their own research and come up with unbiased facts.

***To those dismissing this based on inconsistencies between topics, you can’t make those comparisons. There is some blending of data in the methodology that is appropriate in order to look at the range. This is only about the gap between perception and reality, and a stack rank.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The average person is easily manipulated by propaganda. Highly intelligent people who should know better are easily manipulated by propaganda. This is why propaganda is so dangerous and should be tightly controlled.

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 points 52 minutes ago

A great ideal so long as you're the one in charge of deciding what propaganda is.