<div dir="ltr"><div>I hang out at times on a very conservative forum to hear their views, and it amazes me just how plain paranoid they can be! <br></div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 2:00 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Those hoping to sway public opinion are shocked and/or delighted by the successes of the fake news of the previous years. How many of the people who stormed the Capitol were liberals? You are right! Few. Here is a study (read the abstract and the discussion only to save time) that finds that fake news is mostly believed by conservatives IF the news is negative.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial;font-size:16px">When information concerns hazards, erroneous incredulity is often more costly than erroneous credulity, given that disregarding accurate warnings is more harmful than adopting unnecessary precautions."</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">If the news is potentially positive, there is no asymmetry between liberals and conservatives.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617692108" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617692108</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial;font-size:16px"><br></span></div></div>
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