Awareness is best tactic to fight misinformation

There are many megawealthy and unethical people, politicians and government leaders who have become strongly incentivized to dole out false information to serve their selfish purposes. We are living in times where too many get their “news” from social media, where it is proving to be quite easy to spread falsehoods.

The popularity of television has created a situation where people no longer question what is being presented to them. In his book “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler describes how easy it is to make people believe in a massive lie. We all know about the Holocaust and how Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi party used that technique to justify the extermination of Jewish people by scapegoating them for all of Germany's problems. Psychologists, psychiatrists and politicians know how efficiently the big lie technique works.

Ramani Durvasula is a licensed clinical psychologist and professor of psychology who is an expert on narcissistic personality

disorder and narcissistic abuse.

“Repetition is important, because the Big Lie works through indoctrination,” Durvasula wrote. “The Big Lie then becomes its own evidence base — if it is repeated enough, people believe it, and the very repetition almost tautologically becomes the support for the Lie. Hear something enough it becomes truth. There are people in our midst that lack empathy, have no care for the common good, are grandiose, arrogant, and willing to exploit and manipulate people for solely their own egocentric needs.”

There is no evidence whatsoever of voter fraud in the 2020 election, yet the big lie continues.