March 16, 2023
THE TRUMPISTS ARE ALREADY VLADISTS:
Propaganda (Almost) Never Works: Notes on Russian interference attempts. (Hugo Mercier, 3/15/23, Persuasion)
In January this year, a study by Gregory Eady, Tom Paskhalis, and their colleagues found that the majority (70%) of this Russian propaganda was consumed by only 1% of Twitter users, people who were already staunch Republicans and thus already overwhelmingly likely to vote for Trump. As a result, the fake news shared by the trolls merely preached to the choir. It doesn't seem to have changed anyone's mind. This converges with the result of a 2019 study led by Chris Bail, which found that interacting with accounts from the Internet Research Agency had no impact on the political opinions and behaviors of Twitter users.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2023 12:24 PM