"Crusaders against online misinformation tend to assume that everyone who likes or shares it must believe it. But the Vance episode illustrates a nuance crucial to understanding why even fantastical falsehoods can flourish online: Often, the people circulating them don’t care whether they’re true. They just find them funny or effective as a way to embarrass the other side."
—from the article
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