/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14844639
Not everyone is capable of doing that, retard. People who are more educated and informed on these issues are probably less likely to fall prey to online disinformation, but for many people, that's going to be difficult. It's just like pop culture or politic or sports, or anything else. Some people are completely absorbed by it, and that becomes their world. If you're some right wing boomer and you got caught up in internet disinformation, and you end up falling for some crazy conspiracy theory about how the New World Order and the Democrats are working with Bill Gates to depopulate the planet, then that's going to have serious consequences not just for you, but potentially for society as a whole. Conspiracy theories and disinformation have real world consequences. That's one of the reasons we're seeing so many mental health problems today and so many far-right terrorist attacks and mass shootings. It's not just that conspiracy theories and disinformation are wrong or factually incorrect. These things also provoke intense emotional responses from people, and these are typically negative in nature. Conspiracy theories are so compelling because they exploit peoples tendency for fear and anger. They exploit our tendency to want to blame things on outsiders and forces beyond our control, rather than taking responsibility for our own actions. That fear and that anger is then directed outwards towards "society" or the "normies" or the "globalists" or the "elites" or the "immigrants" or the LGBT community, or etc. Whoever the big, bad boogeyman of the day happens to be.

Conservatives often talk about the importance of taking "personal responsibility", but what they fail to realize is that their conspiratorial ideology actually functions as a psychological and rhetorical mechanism for relieving themselves any responsibility for the very problems they like to complain about and which they themselves created.

>>14697772
>another vaccine conspiracy thread

Take your meds, schizo.

>>14524083
>>14524049
>another antivaxx conspiracy thread

Looks like the Kremlin has their trolls working overtime. Go back to your containment board, incel.

>>14493930
Kremlin shill detected.
Go back to shilling on pol. There are a lot more schizos and racist anti-American far-right types on pol than on this board. I think your propaganda efforts will be much more effective over there.