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"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?

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I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.

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PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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That was actually a result of a statistical blunder. The people who ran the study forgot to exclude Spider-Eating Greg as an outlier.

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alt_xa_23@lemmy.world
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Wasn’t it Spiders Georg?

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