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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The NYT can shove it where the su don’t shine.
Why bother with the big lie and Alinsky tactics of the NYT?
Once again, the Democrats protest too loudly.
In 2016 Hillary Clinton and the Democrats hatched a fantasy
that Donald J. Trump had conspired with Russia, and had
colluded to steal the election from Clinton.
From that point until election day 2020, the Left in the
United States were positive that Trump and Russia did happen,
and that he didn’t deserve to be president.
The Democrats ran every possibly operation they could to
find a trail of Trump/Russia collusion.
They had the NSA, the CIA, and the FBI on it. They had
players outside the United States aiding in the charade.
Now we are told that anyone who thinks the 2020 election was
stolen is some sort of criminal.
Joe Biden has asked for us all to come together in unity,
and the media and the Democrats act as if that is such a
reasoned request.
Never mind what we’ve been through over the last four
years. It was reasoned for them to lie when there was no
evidence, but it’s not reasoned for us to point out that
there is evidence as we tell the truth.
They don’t like to hear it, but there was evidence.
Trump was stiffed in every way possible as he tried to
document the fraud.
There are crystal clear evidences of it, but now we are
supposed to be some sort of terrorist if we don’t buy
what the Left in all it’s glory, demands.
_ them!
Conspiracy theories....How about “I can’t breath” or “nooses in my garage” or the other dozen BS stories perpetrated by the left as a cause to burn down cities.....All of those stories revolve around the false narrative conspiracy that white cops are killing black people at a genocidal rate.
I want the NYT to publish articles like this more often.
The libs we need to reach can all see and feel that something isn’t right.
They’ve all seen “The Matrix”.
Eventually enough discrepancies and inexplicable dead ends and windows intentionally bricked up will begin to tip them off that they’ve been fed fantasies for the past couple of decades.
NYT = Luggenpresse
Reality? The Left? The NYT? Seriously?
“gonna be a heck of a long 4 years with all the msm stomach turning fawning over the criminals running this country-”
What really grates on me is the way they keep denying the election fraud.
“How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis”
He could start by acknowledging they stole the election and that he doesn’t deserve to be president.
The reality crisis; decades of silent pastors in the pulpits who did not speak out.
For 3 years the media pushed the narrative Trump was a Russian KGB agent. So this nytimes writer can stuffit.
Xiden can help our reality crisis by resigning. Otherwise, c ya on the other side of the Old Republic. I’m confident the NY Slimes won’t be joining us.
Experimental gene therapy
four lights?
“But there is evidence...”
Yep- worse still is how the rinos deny it also
resign and admit Trump is the true president
“Millions watched”?
Kinda like 80 million voted for the cadaver?
Beyond laughable
Gaslight, all day, all night.
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