Want to despair at the level of critical thinking out there?
So last night, somebody posted a fake screenshot of a tweet supposedly by Jennifer Rubin. (For those of you who don't know her, she's a WaPo columnist who used to be conservative, but these days is a never-Trumper who spends most of her time criticizing the GOP. I don't think she's liberal, at least not yet.) In any case, the fake tweet says, "Biden's Philadelphia speech met the moment. Mass arrests should come next."
It's completely implausible that Rubin would post anything like that. Nonetheless, it spread like wildfire across Twitter, including among a few decently well-known conservative journalists. Naturally, when it was pointed out that it was fake, they reverted to the usual defense of "well, the fact that I believed it says a lot about Rubin."
Anyway, if you want to depress yourself about how gullible a lot of people are, you can start from this tweet and go from there.
Link to tweet
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