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Big lies and little lies and lies that we want to be true. Both sides are guilty. Rs more so, but both sides.

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"the world has always had a lot of gullible people who will buy anything".... says the idiot who gets his info on vaccines from google.

It's not the fault of the internet that truth is dead, it is the fault of anti-intellectual idiots who equate "smart" with "snobby".

Yeah, I don't know who to blame for this.

Anti-information became a strategy during the early years of the global warming "debate, " which I believe also coincided with "debate" about teaching evolution in public schools in the early 2000s. In both "debates" you had groups of people (climate change deniers/intelligent design) spouting off supposed "facts" that supported their positions, some of which were made up bullshit and others which actual facts but used to draw the wrong conclusions (i.e. logical fallacies). These guys, I'm pretty sure, were drawing their cues from the 9/11 truther conspiracy theory movement, which used similar tactics to try to convince people 9/11 was an inside job.

The Internet DID in fact allow these groups a higher level of coordination in distributing misinformation than previous times. But at the end of the day, we can only blame the uneducated people who read this stuff and accepted it as fact rather than actually try to fact-check anything. They helped create the climate that allows politicians now to blatantly lie and either hope they get away with it or shrug it off when they're called on it.

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Isn't it far more truthful to say that the reason lies are allowed to fester like this is because we have a media that cares more about ad revenue and making everything a controversy even when it isn't.

That's the only reason lies have a platform to influence people from. Sure there will always be some quack website spouting BS, but it would be far easier to dismiss as quackery if the media didn't give them a voice and legitimacy.