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Wendy's avatar

Spoken like a true sycophantic child. Enjoy the fruits if your labor in that reply. Tango down.

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Susan OBrien's avatar

The part before the paywall was excellent and appreciated.

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Dlaindy (M)'s avatar

Her picture should be in the dictionary. Under the word disgusting.

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JUDI MASTROIANNI's avatar

Lock her up!

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Erudite's avatar

Cockroach

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Aaron Waddell's avatar

Nice job! One thing I’d love to know is what were the conspiracy theories that the great Democrats were marked down as pushing.

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Flush VonShitzinPantz's avatar

Nice job!

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tecolote42's avatar

Phenomenal work. Please help me understand why, in the last two sets of numbers, Ocasio-Cortez and Warren have such high numbers. Am chalking it up to being out in the South Texas sun--it's festival time for our small city, and I help out. Many thanks!

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Wendy's avatar

Two metrics

Average engagement per false statement:

Meaning likely that people rush to hold people , even progressives , accountable for even minor mishaps , also opposite party people tend to attack progressives over false statements , even when minor

New York Times mentions of false statements

This creates a false equivalency that normalizes extraordinary levels of misinformation from right-wing representatives while amplifying relatively “minor inaccuracies” ( focus on this detail ) from progressives.

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tecolote42's avatar

As always, appreciate you!

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Lynmadd's avatar

Excellent commentary backed up by research. I don’t think it comes to anyone’s surprise that the women you compared were so widely separated in the statistics. Unfortunately the American public has succumbed to their fascination with outlandish personalities and sensationalism instead of factual information

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Karen Livolsi's avatar

Wendy, your post are fascinating! Thanks for all the effort keeping us informed about what’s happening to us and around us.

We were so used to having the truth/socially accepted reality easily accessible through the 1st amendment and freedom of the press.

That has not been the case for many years now. The press is bought and paid for.

I know a lie when I see/hear/read one. It’s almost always some right wing ding bat whose mother is very disappointed in them. They know they are deliberately lying and there is nothing better than controlling the narrative with total

🐂 💩. I stopped all corporate media about 5-6 years ago and now I get news from Substack, Bluesky, and other sites that I can verify the source and its honesty. Thanks again for your hard work.

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Nightmaher's avatar

Full of factual truths, Thanks Wendy!

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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

Great read!

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