The election is over and the losing side is scrambling to justify its defeat. An emerging narrative is that misinformation is to blame: inaccurate reporting, misleading and biased statements from politicians and government officials, conspiracy theories spread on social media, and social media companies that seemed to have favored the winning side. Fear mixes with anger over the inability for the "right" information to get out and win the day. Sound familiar? While it describes the current reaction of some progressives, it just as easily describes conservatives in 2020 and their now mostly substantiated claims that a laptop contained all sorts of dark personal secrets and politically inconvenient information about Hunter Biden and his father.
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- The election is over and the losing side is scrambling to justify its defeat. 1
- An emerging narrative is that misinformation is to blame inaccurate 1
- Fear mixes with anger over the inability for the right information to get 1
- Sound familiar While it describes the current reaction of some 1
- Biden and his father. 1
- The legacy media wrongly ignored or refused to take seriously those 1
- Biden quickly responded to remove or suppress the truth. 1
- By their own definitions these actors all spread misinformation about the 1
- The narrative now being spread is that misinformation is to blame for the 1
- Democratsʼ defeat in 2024. On MSNBCʼs Morning Joe the day after the 1
- But every political movement blames the other side for lying misleading 2
- Democratic politicians would say that Republican claims about the 2
- Democratic claims. 2
- Itʼs also true that both sides say and believe inaccurate or misleading 2
- But the reasons why Americans share and believe misinformation isnʼt as 2
- Meanwhile some users may engage with misinformation to signal they are 2
- Misinformation then isnʼt exactly the problem it is made out to be. It is 2
- Censorship and cancel culture noble lies of the experts real or perceived 2
- The solution then is not to reassert the authority of experts accuse those 2
- Instead some intellectual humility is called for . Americans have some 2
