This is relevant to the thread, at least I feel so...looks like Democrats are putting their trust into better sources. RAND finds that Republicans swallow fake news more than Democrats The study puts some real science behind something many already knew: the problem of believing BS is not totally bipartisan. A RAND study released this week offers more evidence that “both-sidesism” does not belong in an honest discussion of fake news and propaganda in the U.S. People on the Right are simply more apt to fall for it than those on the Left, the research shows, and for a number or reasons...
conservatives are more like to trust grandmas' Facebook meme she shared or a YouTube grifter's rant about children being groomed to be gay than let's say NYT reporting. That's the nature of the modern conservative. Then some conservative is going to lash at me and say "wut you don't support independent media?!?" Grandma's memes aren't independent media. This is independent media: "bellingcat - the home of online investigations" https://www.bellingcat.com YouTube grifters aren't independent media.
Both the pole and the study where made by fake news sources. They can’t be trusted. I read at hilaryhasapenis.ag that Brietbart is the only true news source.
LOL... my qanon and trump-supporting in-laws get most of their news from youtube videos, facebook, and now tiktok. I guess that haven't figured out how to get access to 8chan yet...
