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Do you have evidence to back that up other than an anecdotal observation? I'm not trying to be argumentative, and I appreciate you defending my post earlier, but in the spirit of seeking the truth is your conclusion evidence-based, or one that simply reinforces your current perceptions? Were you aware of how the 2016 and 2020 disinformation campaigns or slanted? If not, is it causing you to reevaluate your opinions or did you just blow it off?

So I will start by fully acknowledging that I am using my own anecdotal observations, and in addition I am limiting what I'm talking about to primarily covid misinformation on twitter. That said, in my experience, there seems to be a very coordinated and very specific fusion of the old Anti-vax guard and tropes (RFK Jr, pseudo-experts, etc) and the semi libertarian wing of the GOP through essentially meaningless buzzwords like "health freedom" that has allowed an insidious amount of old school anti-vaccine rhetoric into the discussions I've seen with my fellow conservative friends. As you may recall, I am still a Republican and I was conservative for decades. So I have a large number of conservative friends, and without question the sheer volume of misinformation coming from them is nothing short of classic Russian-era Firehosing

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It doesn't matter how many times they are disproven, it doesn't matter how many stories turn out to be false, they just keep retweeting it and posting it. They literally don't care if it's true or not at this point; it's almost like a badge of honor.

It also reminds me a lot of the post-2020 election QAnon "follow the White Rabbit / Kraken" stuff in which deliberately vague and pseudo religious imagery is used to imply that a new world order is trying to take control. That sort of thinking has bled over into nearly mainstream Republican ideology, and it's very dangerous. Because it's predicated on the belief that you can't even trust objective reality, which means now sources like Epoch Times (which is literally owned by a doomsday cult, seriously) are given undue credibility.