Conspiracist charges outlive ordinary lies because they are endlessly repeated

Evidence

The question for politics is how politicians respond to the resistance facts impose on them. Trump wants to obliterate facts that frustrate his wishes and desires, and the new conspiracism is the tool he instinctively reaches for to create a new reality. For him, frustrating facts are not truths to be accommodated but rather fictions created by forces that conspire against him. Many of Trump’s falsehoods come and go; they are reversed or dropped in the moment. But unlike the avalanche of lies and falsehoods, which hardly register before the next news cycle condemns them to oblivion, his conspiracist charges have long life. They are repeated over and over. His signature conspiracist claims do not die. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 168

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key distinction drawn between ordinary falsehoods (short-lived) and conspiracist claims (durable) — an analytic distinction worth retaining.
• XREF: connects to: Disproven conspiracist charges outlive every form of official refutation — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 45; Repetition within echo chambers, not evidence, produces conspiracist assent — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 129; Some claims remain unbelievable no matter how often repeated — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 71 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Repetition within echo chambers, not evidence, produces conspiracist assent #corroborates (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 129
• Some claims remain unbelievable no matter how often repeated #contradicts (0.85) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 71
• Repetition substitutes for evidence as validation in new conspiracism #corroborates (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 15
• Repeated false accusation can generate belief through sheer illocutionary force #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1466
• Repeating a false claim to debunk it increases its plausibility #exemplifies (0.80) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 164
• Factual correction of conspiracism usually fails or backfires #exemplifies (0.75) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 119