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Conservatives Bombarded With Facebook Misinformation Far More Than Liberals In 2020 Election, Study Suggests::Misinformation thrived in conservative echo chambers—but there were no liberal equivalents, according to the findings.

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[–] Hypersapien@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The reason is simple. Misinformation sticks with conservatives more than liberals. With liberals, someone posts evidence that the story isn't true and the whole thing fizzles out. If someone tries posting counter evidence in a conservative forum, they get banned.

There's no money in trying to push misinformation to liberals.

[–] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i would note that nothing is without nuance. while nowhere near comparable, there are some liberals that are also new-age hippies. (B.C. canada) that aren't 100% on their fact checking.

but that's unavoidable in any group that is large and diverse enough.

i think it's a cultural mentality that discourages critical thinking which leads to most conservative ideology to begin with.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You're right. The Far-Left has the same problem. Pretty much any anti-establishment group falls into this. Difference is, the far-left has no political power and they don't want to exterminate people.

[–] jackfrost@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

"Misinformation."

No, call it what it is: propaganda.

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There isn't any Republican propaganda which isn't misinformation at best (the rest being disinformation).

[–] Callie@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Definitely. Republicans have been propaganda throughout history. The red scare, commies, patriotism pushes, their push against gay people in the 60-80s and now China.

They always need to push an enemy to the forefront so people will focus on that instead of how much the citizens are getting fucked by them

[–] insta11@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What does this have to do with tech? This seems more political.

[–] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In other news wather is wet.

Been seing lots of ralying post latelly whit the us vs them mentality, looks like its working though so congrats to yah feds. Divide and conquer is as old as warfare itself isnt it?

[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That’s because liberals are better at identifying misinformation. Pretty simple & straightforward.