So, I recently read this article called “The Power of Political Misinformation” which I found to be a very intriguing article. This article mainly talked about how people are more likely to believe rumors about political people they don’t like even if the rumor is debunked. He also talked about how you are more likely to believe rumors about political people who are in a different party than you.
This was quite obviously seen in the GOP Republican debate. Or heard is more like it. Every time a republican candidate said something against a democratic (especially when it was a huge rumor) you could hear the audience rise up and cheer. I highly doubt that most of the audience has looked up and/or fact checked what the candidates said. They most likely believed whatever their favorite candidate said against another candidate that they didn’t like.
From this I gather that the author is trying to say that even though we want to believe these rumors about people we don’t like, we need to also learn to accept the truth and not try to use them as a way to support or disprove our opinions.
This was quite obviously seen in the GOP Republican debate. Or heard is more like it. Every time a republican candidate said something against a democratic (especially when it was a huge rumor) you could hear the audience rise up and cheer. I highly doubt that most of the audience has looked up and/or fact checked what the candidates said. They most likely believed whatever their favorite candidate said against another candidate that they didn’t like.
From this I gather that the author is trying to say that even though we want to believe these rumors about people we don’t like, we need to also learn to accept the truth and not try to use them as a way to support or disprove our opinions.