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One Third of Americans Believe Russian Disinformation, NewsGuard-YouGov Survey Finds
(www.newsguardrealitycheck.com)
That was my thought... approx 1/3 also voted for the chonk-in-charge. What a strange Coincidence. /s
1/3 believes in disinformation(conservatives magats), the other 1/3 are apathetic or is ignorant, and the actual 1/3 are aware of it. so basically 2/3 falls for the DIS/misinformation.
They have for over a decade, unfortunately.
You’re not counting the talk radio years?
That cancer spread super-fast. I watched a friend go down in mere months.
Guess which third
one third of Americans are stupid.
I feel it’s closer to half, so maybe one third are just really, really stupid.
Its just your standard bell curve. With the majority of us being in the average range.
They believe something because they want to
What they believe or disbelieve is nothing more than a matter of convenience
Right you are, FistingEnthusiast
And unfortunately they showed up to vote.
They never sit one out, because in their mind "calling a man a woman" and living next to someone that is only guilty of not filing immigration paperwork is apparently how we turn into a failing nation.
So about the same that voted for Trump. Makes sense.
Fortunately thats the minority. Remember that.
We aren't talking about a 10% minority, or 20%, this is a whopping 30%. That is absolutely unprecedented and essentially irrecoverable, especially in the context of an ideologue.
I dont think thats unprecidented at all. The political right has always been at least 30% in the US.
I wonder what percent of people approved of Hitler and other fascists. 30% sounds about right, before they started mass killing (causing the numbers to go up)
Is the Venn diagram of these people and the qons a single circle?
Hmmmm, the country that has killed of education is full of stupid people. Big surprise!
Yes, we know that, now how to go about getting these god damn troglodytes to start using critical thinking without offending their delicate sensibilities.
Trump administration: Time to boost those numbers! Do your thing little Marco! "Twitter files 2.0 coming up! We're getting rid of the disinformation task force because they CeNsOrEd CoNsErVaTiVeS!"
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Self-identified dems/independant still believed some disinformation. You are not immune to propaganda.
Don't 1/3 of Americans believe the world is 6000 years old? Earth is flat? and other nonsense? Why wouldn't they believe misinformation/propaganda, Russian or otherwise?
It's the same damn 30% too.
I'm surprised it's only 1/3rd. Americans are extremely stupid.