• @[email protected]
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    510 months ago

    How often have you just read a headline? It’s not about creating cases that stand up to scrutiny, it’s about creating the impression of a movement.

    Nudging people by making things appear more reasonable than they otherwise would be.

    • @CitizenKong
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      310 months ago

      Also our brains are really good at forgetting the “fake” part of fake news after a while.

      • dustycups
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        410 months ago

        Yeah I heard that somewhere. Maybe I’ll look it up later…