Propaganda like this works because it's completely made-up bullshit that wouldn't pass the standards of a real news outlet, but it forms its legs on Fox and in right-wing media so they can launder it through people like Lindsey Graham who get booked on Face the Nation in 5 days https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1361711837193113603
Rewarding people who told the Big Lie with more airtime and never challenging them on the Big Lie only guarantees they will continue telling Small and Medium Lies, letting them grow in the legitimate news space until one day they too can become Big ("climate change is a hoax")
If news hosts used the simple truth test — ask Republicans who won the 2020 election and who got the most votes — they could easily weed out liars. For some reason they refuse to do this. What is that reason?
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