A third of Americans have fallen for Russian disinformation as well as other false online claims about health, elections and international conflict.

Republicans were, though, more likely to believe Russian disinformation claims than their Democratic counterparts, with 57.6% falling for at least one Russian disinformation claim, compared with just 17.9% of Democrats and 29.5% of people who didn’t identify with one particular party.

  • @[email protected]
    14•23 days ago

    The funny thing is the electoral college was created to protect us from this, but it’s kinda the whole reason we’re where we are.

    • Diplomjodler
      23•23 days ago

      Uh, no. The electoral college was created because the slavers wanted representation for their slaves without giving them the vote.

      Edit: Source

      • @[email protected]
        16•23 days ago

        No. The electoral college was created because the founders didn’t trust the uneducated general population to not elect a tyrant, so the EC was supposed to be made up of educated people who wouldn’t be stupid enough to vote against the best interests of the people.

        It also had a bit to do with how long it took to count votes at the time.

        Are you sure you’re not thinking about the 3/5 compromise?

          • @[email protected]
            7•23 days ago

            That article says it was created to prevent a populist president, and that it should’ve been scrapped after the 12th amendment but the 3/5 compromise incentivized the South to keep it.

            The Federalist Papers talk about this a bit and slavery was not a concern.

    • MattEnglish
      2•23 days ago

      I agree the electoral college is part of the problem, but we’ll all benefit from ditching plurality voting and replacing with ranked choice voting or even star voting.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•23 days ago

        I was in favor of ranked choice voting until Trump came out against it. Now I’m even more in favor of it.