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When you repeat a false narrative for any reason, you spread it and strengthen it. This was a key lesson of "Don't Think of An Elephant" (2004). It's especially true in this era of social media. Why do so many influential people spend their entire day repeating false narratives?https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/968832587077734401 …
And what can we do about it? Should we call it out when it happens? Should we unfollow people who insist on repeating every lie and retweeting every Trump tweet? How do we keep this disease from spreading and from overpowering the truth?
In which case you should probably stop spreading false or evidence-free anti-Russia narratives, Professor.
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you can find someone on the internet to say anything you want, that doesnt make it true. So citations are useless anyway. the right wing simply denies any source and tells you what they feel instead. You have to use emotional terms as much as they do.
How else do you draw attention to the issue? I think the false idea is that the number of times that something is repeated actually means anything at all - if a known lie is ‘trending’ that does not magically make it true...we’re so obsessed with measuring things
Unfortunately Maureen, that's 180° from the way it works. When you look at a tweet, at the bottom you see the number of times it's been liked and retweeted. If propaganda or false statements get retweeted by anyone, it gets amplified. Sometimes hundreds of thousands of times.
Because they don’t know how else to respond. Anger creates an action impulse. We feel the need to “do something” and talking about the conspiracy theories *feels* productive. If we told people what *to* do, not just what *not* to do, they could satisfy their action urge.
In terms of productive alternatives, we could ask people to tweet a countervailing image every time they see a reference to a conspiracy theory. So, for example, respond to the made up story with a picture that documents real events without referencing the false story.
Because they’re applying the Conduit Metaphor of communications. The funny thing is that the audience (!) is called “followers”. The structure of our language prevents most of us from using the Toolmaker Metaphor. The latter requires work by the sender. So easy.
... and also, all narratives are “false”. Every novel, every movie tells a fake story. We couldn’t stand a play, if we couldn’t understand that: you would scream: “watch him, the butler is a murderer!”
.. because underneath this lies a fundamental truth: your biography is fake, you’re making it up, as you go along. It is “the Emperors Cloths” all over again. (By the way, Andersen was forced by his publisher to add the young man who called out. He saw the eternity of the story)
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