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[–] 24876036? ago
Are you kidding me? This would be information warfare at its finest. People read articles that agree with their pre-made narrative. Articles that do not agree, orworse, that challenge those narratives, are ignored or discounted. People only read the headlines of the articles that they DISAGREE with. They gleefully dig in to those articles with headlines that they agree with, which is exactly what we want.
[–] 24882255? ago (edited ago)
No I'm not kidding and that is not what we want to do; i.e. put out screwed up (altered) headlines to trick people into reading what we want them to. Your motivation is correct, to disseminate the truth somehow, but we are not out to deceive or manipulate people in any way. That is our strength. That is ''their'' great weakness. Fight the good fight or go home, but don't discredit our movement with lies. Just my opinion. I don't speak for Q.
[–] 24894450? ago
It's not a lie. You're misunderstanding the intent, the mechanism of action, and the effect.
People read articles that align with their predetermined narrative more than they read articles that contradict it. Which means that they are completely ready to believe that Trump sold secrets to Russia or whatever, and they go into the article believing it already. Believing that the news is possible, and even likely.
If the article is about Hillary selling secrets to Russia, they will say to themselves, "no way, that's crazy talk" and move on.
But if they go into the article believing it, and THEN find out that the person in the article is the opposite of who they thought it was, they're left with cognitive dissonance: they already believe the allegation, but now they have to wind it back, to exert effort and UNbelieve it. This causes mental anguish, and sooner or later they will recognize that the cause of their mental anguish is their own bias.
And this destroys the bias.