Disinformation expert Tyson Yunkaporta says false ideas spread like weeds and can put doubt into the minds of the most rational people.
The Voice campaign is being subjected to so much disinformation that it could have planted doubts in the minds of a majority, says academic, who studies disinformation landscapes and how they propagate. “It could be enough to make half the population uncertain enough to vote no, because they’re not quite sure,” he says.
“I can intellectualise and think through it all. But in my heart, I still hate Hillary for no good reason,” he says. about kids using kitty litter trays in school classrooms because they identify as furries , which was broadcast by Joe Rogan, took a week to make it over here.It doesn’t take a majority of voices to seed disinformation, he says. Just 20 per cent of a population circulating material can be enough to get the ideas into the orbits of the majority. They might hear them from family, friends or colleagues and once they’ve heard it, the idea takes root.
Before the Voice, COVID-19 conspiracies galvanised parts of the population who are using the same kinds of arguments in relation to the referendum. This process of becoming radicalised by exposure to conspiracies he calls “black pilling” .took hold in Indigenous communities, and points out that Indigenous people have been the subject of real conspiracies – such as when colonial powers decided the fate of whole populations – which makes people more open to conspiracy theories.
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