Misinformation Campaigns

 Like anything, social media can be used in a negative way for political campaigns. After all, campaigns are all about mobilizing groups to vote for you. Could our candidates use media to mobilize voter based on false information? Absolutely. What comes to mind for me is Donald Trump use of his twitter and his allies use of information. The Q movement gained some traction and every one of them were Trump voters. Trump never discouraged this misinformation nor disputed their "reality". He let the misinformation spread to the point that it became a problem. The amount of misinformation spilled over to the 2020 election. Those followers believed everything that President Trump said. We should always be willing to call a spade a spade, especially when it comes to what our politicians are spewing out. Trump told his base and the country for months that the 2020 election was set to be ripe with fraud and that he was going to win by a landslide. This narrative was engrained in the minds of his radical followers. When the election did not go as he wanted, he knew that he would be able to dispute it and have some support from his extreme followers. Misinformation was the reason that Trump thought he could subvert democracy. I hope that is was a wakeup call to all Americans that we need to be careful what we read and believe.