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>We now have people who 100% believe objectively wrong things and have an obsession to spread their belief as fact. That's not remotely a new thing. Ever since
by tomatotomato37 7y ago
>We now have people who 100% believe objectively wrong things and have an obsession to spread their belief as fact.
That's not remotely a new thing. Ever since bits could be sent over the wire we've had Dale Gribbles trying to spread their weirdass conspiracies using the web. Only difference is that back then it existed in the form of homemade webpages with remarkably bad color theory rather than the poorly punctuated social media posts of today.
- meheleventyone 7y agoI think the difference is that it’s not fringe obsessives but rather everyday people spreading bad info. Stuff like QAnon, white nationalism, anti-vax, GamerGate and so on might be mostly started and kept well alive by fringe obsessives but plenty of normal people are sharing their memes, lies and content in an uncritical manner in a way that’s very different to personal websites. Social networks have made it much easier for these lies to be spread and repeated whitewashing their true origins and becoming accepted.