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[–] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

Which means they truly know they are peddling bullshit to gullible voters.

[–] CynAq@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.

Great idea. Give scientists studying how political bullshitting works fresh material to study. I'm sure they are trembling in their shorts in fear of this very specific research data coming their way.

[–] circularfish@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

So the attack on disinformation researchers is based on the premise that they were taking direction from the government. Which they weren’t. Atomic levels of irony here.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] racer983@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Archive links get rid of the paywall but it doesn't play nice with some dns settings apparently. Here is the actual link but it does have the paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/business/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html:

Thanks. Yeah, I've learned that I have issues with archive links.

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