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Ryan Bridge: The problem with internet conspiracy theories
Kamala Harris was wearing audio earrings during the debate this week.
Did you hear about this? Yeah, she was cheating.
They looked like pearl earrings, but they also look like audio earrings. You can buy them, and you can have your staff feed you information in real time during a debate, they can coach you live.
Yeah, it's real, I read it on the internet.
That's the problem, isn't it? On some corners of the internet there's the dog-duck-immigrant conspiracy thing, there's the trans migrant prisoner sex change thing, and now there's the Kamala earrings thing.
Misinformation, disinformation…
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