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Part of the problem is with technology, specifically the internet - it's become insanely easy to share misinformation on every single thing. I mean I'm on a fansite, where the moderator has a rule that no one can share clickbait sites or false spoiler/rumors. And that's minor. People post whatever lies they want to tell - and they find convincing ways to back them up. A lot time ago, about twenty years ago, I was listening to a radio conversation in a cab ride to the airport. The cabbie and I were laughing - because they were talking about how not only Fox News, but also the Press Secretary to the President of the US at the time were using internet bloggers to fact check. Internet Bloggers!
My god. How inaccurate can you get. And they were complaining about this tendency, and how Fox kept getting called on their factual inaccuracies as a result.

On twitter and FB - you can post something and it will go viral in seconds, if it hits the right mood and audience at the right time, and the right person shares it. People get into trouble all the time on Twitter. One famous director was getting into trouble constantly, it got to the point in which I'd wonder - okay, what did you do now? It's so easy to be misunderstood.

The media is camped out on twitter. So one must be careful to keep a low profile and say as little as possible. A few actors have gotten themselves into trouble - and scaled back their tweets or deleted their accounts, as have politicians.

Trump - got kicked off of both FB and Twitter post the insurgency. Which cost him 60% of his marketing platforms.

The problem is so much is based on marketing - the marketing of specific messages, etc. I don't know what the ult-right hopes to gain through the anti-vax, anti-mask messaging. All they are doing is killing their own constituents. The states with the highest number of cases and the most deaths, along with the areas with the most nation wide, are conservative. I'm in Brooklyn, and the Hassidic community - an ultra conservative community was hit hard by the virus. It accounts for most of the deaths, as do the Latin American community which is also very conservative. People are hurting themselves for what? A bunch of antiquated beliefs?