Thank goodness no left wing influencers do that.
I’m sure there are some who do, particularly with the Supreme Court, I just don’t see them posted here (or anywhere else) very often.
When they are posted here, like the JD Vance couch fornication story, I don’t recall demands to “prove it isn’t true.”
The example given by
@hUTch2002 was “Russia nonsense” which was itself a mischaracterization that was sold to people who wanted to believe it and/or were too lazy to read the Mueller report.
There’s a multi-hundred page QAnon thread on here. Some of those people were so entrenched that they refused to believe the pizza parlor didn’t have a basement even after one of them shot the place up and the police department said there was no basement.
A guy on here was proudly exclaiming that he was calling pharmacies to ask about the labels on their Covid vaccines because he and a dozen others bought into conspiracy theories about vaccine injuries.
The Paul Pelosi thread.
“The FBI tried to assassinate Trump at the Mar-a-lago raid.”
There are people who post that Ashley Biden diary meme every time the topic comes up. No telling how many believe that.
For a while, there was a narrative on the right that Section 230 made some platform/publisher distinction that allowed people to sue social media companies. It was so prevalent that as some point I made a post quoting case law from like 9 or 10 different circuit courts showing that that’s not how it works.
There was the Roger stone juror thing where he was supposed to get a new trial because she made some political Facebook posts.
They just form whatever narrative they want about the fraudulent electors scheme.
Then there’s the story about Tim Walz that had to be deleted yesterday.
There are a couple of Twitter re-posts a month at this point making wild, unsupported claims based on Jack Smith’s filings. Those aren’t even labeled “breaking” at this point, they’re “reminders” so apparently that narrative is established somewhere.
I’m sure “gullibility” would be more balanced in a more balanced forum, but it takes a special kind of stupid to read this forum and decide that’s a hill you want to die on.
