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Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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And this is why they're absolutely winning. Why are they dominating the entire media landscape and are we just sitting back? Is it only because an average lie is easier to believe in than the difficult truth? Or should we become more angry at them?
I don’t know. I’ve heard leftists (mostly communists) espouse that fighting fire with fire and just outright lying at the same level they do would be beneficial to the cause, but that just feels wrong to me and I feel like it wouldn’t work anyways for some reason.
We're not NEARLY as good at lying. We have analytical thinking and want to understand the why's. They were generally raised in the church and want to get to the answer regardless of anything necessary to get to an answer.
Yeah that’s how it feels to me too.