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> Society as a whole needs to be better at calling out the lies with hard facts and data. It doesn’t work. In the time it takes to refute one lie with facts an
by codetrotter 3y ago
> Society as a whole needs to be better at calling out the lies with hard facts and data.
It doesn’t work. In the time it takes to refute one lie with facts and data, the world has moved on and uncountable additional lies have been spread in the meantime.
Besides which. Both the people that produce the lies, and their supporters, are well aware of the fact that it’s not true. They just choose to ignore that. And any facts and data you are able to compile, will fall on deaf ears.
- ClarityJones 3y ago> It doesn’t work. In the time it takes to refute one lie with facts and data, the world has moved on and uncountable additional lies have been spread in the meantime. Great point, free speech is bad. We should repeal the 1st Amendment. /s
- Clubber 3y agoThere's an uncomfortable amount of people on this thread that seem to feel that way.
- InSteady 3y agoPlus when people do take the time to thoroughly refute misinformation, it's getting easier and easier to drown out any signal that starts spreading with a cacophony of noise from bots.