Troll watch: Impeachment inquiry unleashes disinformation

[struggle4progress]

October 5, 20195:02 PM ET
HANNAH ALLAM

... JAMIE RASKIN: It's essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation, spreading conspiracy theories. Those conspiracy theories have been widely debunked and discredited ...

JANKOWICZ: You take a fissure in society, whether that's economic, racial, political, and you just drive that deeper and deeper to kind of split society at the edges ...

SCHAFER: We're doing all of the work for them. They are just, again, turning up that volume and making some of these kind of extreme talking points seem like they're a little bit more mainstream ...

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/05/767572883/troll-watch-impeachment-inquiry-unleashes-u-s-driven-disinformation

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Political corruption is seen as so pervasive and politics has become so polarized...

that people will believe anything. IMHO, as far as many people are concerned, it is just a matter who the bigger liar is.

That is the sane peoples' view. The far right see politics as Lord of Flies. You get what you can take.

Morals are for the lessers. Ethics are for suckers.