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Originally Posted by jayswin
We can talk about one campaign vs the other, but many are missing the key ingredient to all of this: conflict in this world is changing rapidly and misinformation through social media is way more powerful than many care to admit.
The GOP is backed by arguably the largest misinformation campaign the world has seen, with Elon Musk purchasing Twitter and making it even stronger in the past year. It's crazy how powerful this warfare is and really the biggest reason why Trump won.
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I get what you’re saying to some degree but misinformation isn’t a new concept. While social media plays a roll, it’s tough to say that it is the biggest reason trump won. He got significantly fewer votes(as of last count) than he did in 2020, before musk bought twitter and when a pandemic was still limiting peoples’ ability to vote.
I’d argue that Biden’s early refusal to not run again and a lack of primaries for the democrat candidate played a much larger role in the results. Had Biden allowed for a proper campaign and for the democrats to see how unpopular of a choice Kamala really was during a primary they could have put a better candidate in her place.