Posted on 02/02/2021 9:05:31 PM PST by bitt
These steps, experts say, could prod more people to abandon the scourge of hoaxes and lies.
Last month, millions of Americans watched as President Biden took the oath of office and, in a high-minded Inaugural Address, called for a new era of American unity.
But plenty of other Americans weren’t paying attention to Mr. Biden’s speech. They were too busy watching YouTube videos alleging that the inauguration was a prerecorded hoax that had been filmed on a Hollywood soundstage.
Or they were melting down in QAnon group chats, trying to figure out why former President Donald J. Trump wasn’t interrupting Mr. Biden’s speech to declare martial law and announce the mass arrest of satanic pedophiles.
Or maybe their TVs were tuned to OAN, where an anchor was floating the baseless theory that Mr. Biden “wasn’t actually elected by the people.” Hoaxes, lies and collective delusions aren’t new, but the extent to which millions of Americans have embraced them may be. Thirty percent of Republicans have a favorable view of QAnon, according to a recent YouGov poll. According to other polls, more than 70 percent of Republicans believe Mr. Trump legitimately won the election, and 40 percent of Americans — including plenty of Democrats — believe the baseless theory that Covid-19 was manufactured in a Chinese lab.
The muddled, chaotic information ecosystem that produces these misguided beliefs doesn’t just jeopardize some lofty ideal of national unity. It actively exacerbates our biggest national problems, and creates more work for those trying to solve them. And it raises an important question for the Biden administration: How do you unite a country in which millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality?
In the past year alone, we have seen conspiracy theorists cause Covid-19 vaccine delays, sabotage a wildfire response
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these people think the book 1984 is a game plan
Rules for Revolution
1984
Rules for Radicals
Yep.....all in their playbooks list.
And, they always tell us who they most fear.
no clicks for commies
Mmmmm, actually, you know what, NYT? It was conspiracy theories that served as the catalyst for the vaccines to be rolled out in record time.
Lol! This “Kevin” is projecting again. Even those who do hang around in QAnon chatrooms have a closer hold on reality than this douche. Nevermind that he writes for a trash paper who’s columnist denied the reality of 10 million dead in the Ukraine.
President Dr. Trump cleared the mine field that allowed the vaccines to be developed in record time. If anybody delayed anything, it was demonicRATS. They even admitted they did so to prevent President Dr. Trump for claiming credit during a Presidential campaign.
Matt Bracken....
Joseph Stolen has no interest in solving any meaningful aspect of American history, culture, and prosperity.
There are four lights.
That is your 102 IQ brain trust.
I don't let failed English majors realitysplain to me.
that’s exactly what it is- brainwashing the masses-
gonna be a heck of a long 4 years with all the msm stomach turning fawning over the criminals running this country-
I read the comments. Libs live in an alternative universe.
False premise in the title, never mind the rest. Pure unadulterated crap from the queen of crap, the New York slimes. That is all they are about, propaganda to fit their agenda. All the crap that fits our agenda.
Uh, try living in reality would be good place for them to start. Too much to ask? 😕
Kevin Roose lives in la la land.
the obsession among anti-Trumpers to frame Trump supporters as conspiracy theorists, etc., is laughable.
Roose/NYT & the FakeNewsMSM in general believe in the Russia Hoax conspiracy theory, the Ukraine impeachment hoax, the Biden won the presidency fraud, the Trump is racist lie, BLM are peaceful, antifa doesn’t exist, ETC ETC ETC.
how come there aren’t any op-eds in the FakeNewsMSM pointing this out?
Nice try Slimes and.......FVK off.
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