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Barbara McQuade
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“A significant number of Americans don’t seem to care anymore whether a statement is true. What seems to matter instead is whether any given message is consistent with their worldview.”
― Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
― Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
“to Sarah Longwell, a GOP strategist critical of Trump, ordinary voters who continue to be election deniers “aren’t bad or unintelligent people. The problem is that the Big Lie is embedded in their daily life. They hear from Trump-aligned politicians, their like-minded peers, and MAGA-friendly media outlets—and from these sources they hear the same false claims repeated ad infinitum.”537 The public’s willingness to embrace, repeat, and amplify disinformation portends a frightening future for democracy in America.”
― Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
― Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
“Tactics in the authoritarian playbook include appealing to emotion over reason, exploiting divisions, undermining critics, dismantling public institutions, stoking violence,99 and creating an image of the Great Leader as both an everyman and a superman.100 Disinformation is the catalyst that allows these tactics to work. The”
― Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
― Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
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