A post showing a massive sea of red counties across the United States went viral braves - dodgers with thousands of likes and standing ovations in the comments. "The silent majority is rising." Powerful message. One problem — it's a map from Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential landslide. Forty years ago. It was right there on the picture. Nobody looked.
0:00 - Intentional Misleading or Just Stupid?
0:19 - The "Red Is Rising" Map Going Viral
0:51 - Wait — When Is This Map From?
1:07 - It's Reagan's 1984 Landslide. 49 States.
1:25 - A Map of Where the Gullible Voters Live
1:44 - Did the Original Poster Know?
2:10 - It Was on the Picture. Nobody Checked.
2:49 - Intentional Lie or Too Stupid to Look?
A map of US counties flooded in red went massively viral on social media under the caption "County by county, red is rising — the silent majority is rising." Thousands liked it. Hundreds cheered in the comments. Nobody noticed it was a screenshot from Ronald Reagan's 1984 presidential election, when he carried 49 out of 50 states. Tom Powell asks the only question worth asking: was the person who posted it deliberately misleading people, or were they just too oblivious to read their own image? Either way, the people cheering it didn't even michelle wie have to dig — the date was right there on the emelec - libertad fc map.
#RedWaveMap #Reagan1984 #PoliticalMisinformation #ConfirmationBias #VoterMisinformation
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