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Misinformation Campaigns Have Common Tropes
A lot of misinformation producers use anxiety and fear in the crafting of their messages. The mind is partly predisposed to want to accept randomness, so one of these tricks is to reinterpret randomness. It's easy to trick the brain into wanting to see that pattern, especially if you wrap that up into a convincing story. Smart manipulators use a grain of truth to get their message out.