1. La Desinformación como Causa Principal del Resultado Electoral.
Una opinión generalizada es que la derrota electoral no se debió a políticas o al desempeño económico, sino a una campaña masiva y deliberada de desinformación. Los usuarios sostienen que las mentiras y narrativas falsas confundieron a una parte significativa del electorado, convirtiéndose en el factor más determinante del resultado.
- 2016 was a clear wake-up call that the disinformation of american voters was the greatest threat to our democracy. Public officials did nothing address it. Therefore this outcome is hardly surprising.
- After much consideration, imho, we lost the election due to a staggering amount of disinformation, and an even more staggering number of people who believed it.
- Misinformation and disinformation is the entire reason that trump won. Low information voters believed his lies because he hates who they hate and he makes them feel good about being bigots.
- When the dust settles, i expect the people who assess elections will tell us disinformation was key in 2024. It wasn’t the economy, it was the disinformation about the economy.
- Summarize the ‘24 election outcome this way: trump did not win the election; disinformation won it for him.
2. Influencia en el Comportamiento del Electorado: Votantes y Abstención.
Se argumenta que las campañas de desinformación no solo buscaron cambiar votos, sino también suprimir la participación. Muchos comentarios señalan que la estrategia principal fue generar apatía y desmotivar a votantes clave, contribuyendo a que millones de ciudadanos decidieran no acudir a las urnas.
- The constant disinformation push was designed to suppress votes, not win new ones. Last i saw, 10,00,00 less people voted in 2024 than 2022.
- Based on all of the disinformation in our information landscape i can better understand why so many americans were fooled into voting for republicans. What i can't bring myself to do is to forgive the 90 million americans who felt that it was not important for them to cast a vote at all […].
- I’m not mad at these people for voting for him. They were inundated with disinformation. The 36% of the population who didn’t think it was important enough to vote at all, however…i’m pretty pissed off at them.
- I think the effect of the propaganda was also to demotivate voters. If you look at the total pool of eligible voters (18, citizens, non-felons in some states) 37% of them didn’t bother to vote. Disinformation fuels apathy.
- Whether or not they end up purging voters, they want us to think that's what they're doing. People who don't think their vote will count are less likely to vote. Disinformation as a weapon.
3. Contraargumentos: La Responsabilidad del Votante frente a la Desinformación.
En contraste, una corriente de opinión sostiene que culpar a la desinformación es una excusa que ignora la responsabilidad individual del votante. Estos usuarios afirman que las personas eligieron creer en las falsedades porque estas se alineaban con sus prejuicios, odios o intereses personales, y que votaron por Trump de manera consciente.
- I don't think the problem is disinformation i think the people that voted for trump are genuinely, racist, sexists, greedy fucks, sociopaths, wannabe dictators, traitors to democracy, christo-fascists, imperialistic and traitors to their race or ethnicity.
- People believe or pretend to believe the disinformation because they want to. People voted for trump because they wanted him to win, not because they were disinformed.
- It's more frightening to think that voters freely chose trump, rather than being the unwitting victims of disinformation. Americans don't need russian bots or newsmax to destroy democracy, they are perfectly capable of doing it on their own.
- They consciously voted for trump. Stop blaming disinformation. They heard the other side and chose their candidate.
- ‘nobody was tricked into voting for trump’: why the disinformation panic is over.
4. Actores y Plataformas: ¿Quiénes Propagan la Desinformación?
Los comentarios identifican a diversos actores como responsables de la propagación de desinformación. Se menciona a los medios de comunicación (tanto de derecha como tradicionales), las redes sociales, multimillonarios, actores extranjeros como Rusia y el uso de nuevas tecnologías como la inteligencia artificial para crear la ilusión de un apoyo masivo.
- Disinformation is an obvious strategy with its co-conspirators: the media.
- Or instead, the election was “rigged” by social and other media flooding the zone with bullshit/misinformation/disinformation. 50 years of saturation fascist propaganda and attacks on public education have taken their toll on americans’ bullshit detection/critical reasoning abilities.
- .misinformation won this election, spread by people that literally believed the disinformation given to them by the people that would benefit most by the collapse of democracy.the oligarchy party, the tech bro's, crypto and of course russia.
- Many of these voters are surrounded with an endless firehose of disinformation, from all angles. Because information warfare works: fox news, right wing talk radio, rt, newsmax, sinclair, and other outlets.
- As well as ignoring the massive ai disinformation campaign that pushed those voters further. And the increasing evidence of voter irregularities.