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If you're wondering whether people spreading juicy and false rumors about candidates' sexual matters have had an impact on election outcomes, the answer is defi
by BoxFour 3y ago
If you're wondering whether people spreading juicy and false rumors about candidates' sexual matters have had an impact on election outcomes, the answer is definitely yes. Maybe this specific type of sexual rumor hasn't had a major effect, but considering that this technology is still relatively new, it's not something to be too complacent about.
On the topic of people believing outlandish things on whimsy evidence: Plenty of people were convinced Hillary Clinton was running an underground child pornography ring in a pizza basement based on paintings hung in someone’s house.
Maybe they were all politically aligned against her from the start, or maybe they weren’t and it affected the 2016 election. How would we know?
- necovek 3y agoOne can do polls to establish eg. "do you believe this story", "did you support Clinton before this", "did this change your voting preference"... While no poll is 100% accurate, as long as you make it statistically significant and introduce a good control (say multiple fake and real stories, with some of them positive too), you'll get good signal and ability to say exactly if it did affect the election.