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What’s wrong with being anti-vax? Should we kick off the anti-GMO people as well? And QAnon is like the left wing boogie man. Anyone complaining about it sounds

• pjc50 5y ago
  QAnon is "real", or at least real enough that it keeps coming up in indictments of Jan 6 people. Whereas Alex Jones libels the parents of murdered children.
• ShamelessC 5y ago
  It's factually incorrect and unhealthy. Plenty of science out there on the subject. Bans can cause backlash - it's better to just leave Twitter yourself so as not to be exposed to that particular "reality" which is not at all similar to the one that exists in meat space. Or, at least, to admit that you may be incapable of deciphering truth from fact with that much misinformation around and so many others happy to believe it without applying rigorous examination, vetting sources, etc. Also, believe it or not but there actually are people who believe the Qanon nonsense. It's been widely reported on.
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• jollybean 5y ago
  No, it's silly to ignore QAnon. A very material number of people believe in that stuff. More broadly - misinformation is very real. It's 'silly' to believe that somehow the truth rises to the top. People believe the story that makes them 'feel' a certain way, and will deny the reality in their faces. I'm on RT and watching Russian commenters indicate that all the 'dead bodies in Bucha' (near Kyiv) were Ukrainians killed by Ukrainians as a 'false flag'. Others say it they are not real. Other say actors. Others say it doesn't exist. In 2022 you can just make up your own reality and spread it on Twitter, and that's dangerous.