The example here is renewable energies, but this applies to corona, vaccines, 911, climate change and whathaveyou.
Sites like this seem to attract people prone to believe conspiracy shit like shown in this video and the tactics are all the same: Take an actual fact and blow its impact on the "system" way out of proportion, spike it with hard-ish to investigate lies, and then tell your audience to "think for themselves, and not trust official sources".
It would be hillariouis if it weren't that sad actually!
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(Old Spike)
yup, and the opposite is also prevalent - take one of the most outlandish claims of conspiracy theorists, then use that to label other valid counterpoints as part of the same craziness, and then conclude that means the facts they presented must be true.
(Old Spike)
The problem is that when an information source (for example those that are/were popular on here, like crowder, beanyhat, prager u, fox news, or shapiro) deliberately spreads ridiculous misinformation on one topic how do you know when to trust them on others? You don't. They always have to be double checked! So one might as well discard them and get the information elsewhere.
Don't get me wrong, everyone can make mistakes, too many don't own up to them, though!
(Old Spike)
right. all i mean is it can go both ways. we should apply the same to "trusted" sources also.