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@BrendanNyhan

political science professor & contributor. Before: CJR media critic, Spinsanity/All the President's Spin co-author.

Hanover, NH
dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/
Joined October 2009
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    Jan 6

    My warning about lack of dramatic moments when democracy disappears in & on how backsliding happens in practice

    38 replies 683 retweets 717 likes
  2. 1 hour ago

    Lots of stuff like this: Trump can stand in front of/tweet about status quo and claim he is changing everything (drone strikes, econ, wall)

    Yes, Trump will build his border wall. Most of it is already built.
    2 replies 13 retweets 29 likes
  3. 1 hour ago

    Agree it is very possible this is false. Jones is not trustworthy. But fact that it's totally plausible says a lot

    I know Trump and his utter unbelievable/strange fascination with Alex Jones, but i bet $100 that this is full of BS from Jones
    6 replies 13 retweets 51 likes
  4. 1 hour ago

    So much delusion out there

    My new favorite liberal fantasy is that Republicans will impeach Trump bc he's acting exactly like he did when they campaigned for him.
    11 replies 17 retweets 92 likes
  5. 1 hour ago

    The war on objective reality

    Hmmm, who to believe? Tiffany and Kellyanne or ACTUAL VOTER REGISTRATION RECORDS reproduced here?
    5 replies 28 retweets 57 likes
  6. 2 hours ago

    a guy who ran an avowed racist and anti-Semitic website and was endorsed by the American Nazi Party is basically the shadow president

    If this Politico story is right, these major, major executive orders all come from two guys named Steve.
    10 replies 192 retweets 158 likes
  7. 2 hours ago

    Where we are as a country

    9-11/Sandy Hook Truther Alex Jones says that Infowars has been offered White House press credentials.
    10 replies 41 retweets 58 likes
  8. 2 hours ago

    "When propaganda does make clearly false claims, it may attempt to distract and entertain rather than to simply persuade."

    The excellent in talks about lying and politics. The post we need right now.
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  9. 4 hours ago

    Donald Trump invites authoritarianism to America via

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  10. 2 hours ago

    In Trump's America, the government tells you that all crimes are committed in heavily black cities and by illegal immigrants.

    It's hard to understate how dangerous this is. A constant feed of xenophobic propaganda from our government.
    16 replies 172 retweets 213 likes
  11. 4 hours ago

    Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: via

    1 reply 25 retweets 30 likes
  12. 2 hours ago

    (inspired by the great - can't find the tweet where he did a version of this)

    1 reply 11 likes
  13. 2 hours ago

    Read this as if it were about another country. You would assume they're describing some sort of authoritarian leader

    16 replies 233 retweets 250 likes
  14. 2 hours ago

    Finally, see also "Misinformation and its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debasing" by et al.

    1 reply 7 retweets 8 likes
  15. 2 hours ago

    In same issue, et al. have a related article on Science Curiosity & Political Information Processing

    1 reply 6 retweets 8 likes
  16. 2 hours ago

    Timely: New Advances in Political Psych w/ & on what we know about political misinfo now out

    3 replies 47 retweets 62 likes
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  18. 3 hours ago

    Really with the ? At this point?

    Is it the volume of Trump lies that grate, or the quality? Are we tougher on him than other political liars?
    2 replies 6 retweets 29 likes
  19. 3 hours ago

    Like a jukebox

    14 minutes apart: Fox says "ungrateful traitor," Trump says "ungrateful traitor," Fox says "weak leader," Trump says "weak leader."
    10 replies 29 retweets 58 likes
  20. 21 hours ago

    Most Americans should be able to unite around the defense of our democracy. It is critical that we do.

    182 replies 2,028 retweets 4,373 likes
  21. 4 hours ago

    Cognitive dissonance alert

    Gonna be fun to see conservatives praising the virtue of eminent domain to get the wall built in Texas.
    2 replies 15 retweets 58 likes

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