Comment by NicoJuicy

> But recently flat out knowingly lying with the specific intent of deceiving people has become normalised. It’s a serious threat.

It's literally propaganda. A Russian tactic called the firehose of falsehoods.

The trick is making the truth politically related, so the real truth doesn't matter anymore.

And people can just say it's a "x" opinion to dismiss it. It's unfortunately pretty effective as we've seen...