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Did a Democratic Lawmaker Introduce a Bill to ‘Euthanize Seniors’? Claim A Democratic Party lawmaker was caught saying that Americans over 70 years old should just be euthanized and pushing the idea of a bill legalizing that. Rating Not True Like this fact check? Reporting Known satire site the Last Line of Defense, or LLOD, continued pushing its content in September 2019, as they opened another affiliate site publishing the same kind of posts. Daily World Update, billing itself as satire for flat earthers, Trumpers, and y’all qaeda, ran a post accusing a made-up Democratic Party lawmaker named Ginny Talia of calling for the euthanization of seniors: While Talia may not exist, the woman identified as her in a photograph does; the photo is actually of Christy Clark, the former premier for the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was first published by the Canadian Press in January 2013. The post also pushes the claim that Talia smeared the elderly in a rant caught on a cell phone video (which is not included): Seriously, why do we even keep them around? I mean thank you for your service but you no longer serve any purpose in society. There’s so damn many of them now. Boomers. Our infrastructure can’’t support them. Socialism is about protecting the good of all. The few make sacrifices for the whole. Geriatrics should be saying to themselves, ‘We are a burden on society. Our children will suffer for our selfishness in staying alive. We contacted both Clark and the Canadian Press to ask about the use of her likeness by Daily World Update. While the post is labeled satire and/or conservative fan fiction and Daily World Update contains a disclaimer about the fabricated nature of their content, this story — like many others — was republished and run verbatim by other blogs, which then omitted any such notice for their readers. The blogger behind LLOD and its spinoff sites has claimed that his content does not sway opinions, and that readers would be able to discern obvious fabrications from legitimate news stories. But researchers have come out against that claim. I keep seeing proprietors of supposedly satirical fake news websites using this excuse, but I know of no research to suggest it is accurate, Dartmouth University professor Brendan Nyhan told Politifact in May 2017. It seems more like a way to make the other side look bad and/or make money while spreading misinformation. Similarly, Vanderbilt University researcher Lisa Fazio found in her own work that even readers who knew a published claim to be false would be more likely to believe otherwise the more they were exposed to disinformation. She wrote: People tend to remember false information, but forget that it was labeled as false. A 2011 study gave participants statements from sources described as either reliable or unreliable. Two weeks later, the participants were asked to rate the truth of several statements – the reliable and unreliable statements from before, and new statements as well. They tended to rate the repeated statements as more true, even if they were originally labeled as unreliable. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Even debunking a false claim, Fazio reported, can reinforce it and continue its spread in what is known as the backfire effect. However, in recent years, some of the most disheartening conclusions about the backfire effect have been revised. Instead, it could be called the pushback effect , which is still damaging — but not to the extent that was previously believed. Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks Tagged boomers , canada , euthanasia , last line of defense , satire
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