The lies being told on social media, where most people get their news, as well as on right-wing news sources, radio shows, cable tv, and youtube, are beyond what most sensible people can fathom. Likely most people don’t believe all of it, but with the mere exposure effect, many come to believe a lot of wrong and not real things.
Among the claims: Big covid checks are coming again, the stock market drop is Joe Biden’s fault, the migrants sent to a foreign outsourced offshored prison are all convicted criminals, and hospital workers are actively killing people, or at least are masking in medical settings just to be so-called “woke”, and supposedly sexualizing newborn babies at the hospital.
They use advertising, online marketing, the major media, social media, influencers, pundits, and content creators to signal, hint, and straight out tell false stories and promote gamified conspiracy fictions. And some people believe at least some of it, and make decisions based on wrong ideas all the time.
