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.

  • 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.