# Disinformation and why it's the elephant in the room

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disinformation-and-why-its-the-elephant-in-the-room/1014584>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disinformation-and-why-its-the-elephant-in-the-room/1014584 "2025-02-20T16:58:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disinformation-and-why-its-the-elephant-in-the-room/1014584/41 "2025-02-21T11:56:11Z")

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> [@joebuck20](#):
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> That’s what begat Rush Limbaugh’s success, and when he hit it big, broadcasters began handing out microphones to seemingly every belligerent asshat with a grievance. From that point on, it was no longer enough to simply agree to disagree with your political opposites. Now, your political opponents had to be treated as evildoers who want to destroy America.

I remember this era very clearly. I was working for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board at the time and every store had that vile mutant spewing his vicious dogma.

Even back then it was unsettling to hear.

And even more unsettling to watch so many people fall under his spell.

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**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disinformation-and-why-its-the-elephant-in-the-room/1014584/42 "2025-02-21T19:20:07Z")

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Here’s a non-paywalled link to what I think is the same story

> **[Meta Is Ready to Bring Trump Into Play in Fight Against EU Rules](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-ready-bring-trump-play-142833313.html)**
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> (Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc.’s global policy director said the technology giant “won’t shy away” from taking up its case with President Donald Trump if the European Union uses its digital rules to target Meta’s products. Most Read from...

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**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disinformation-and-why-its-the-elephant-in-the-room/1014584/43 "2025-02-21T19:58:42Z")

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> [@DavidNRockies](#):
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> The audience that laps it up unquestioningly and with gusto … already thinks everything left of Fox News is FAKE NEWS.

Indeed-- heck, even local news that is nowhere near about Trump (like local sports and weather) is also fake according to these sorts of people, which would make it seem that the only real news to these people is right-wing opinion channels that praise Trump till the cows come home and have him as a focus 24/7/365.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disinformation-and-why-its-the-elephant-in-the-room/1014584/44 "2025-02-21T21:20:02Z")

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MAGA is like a fun house mirror version of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

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