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Abbie Richards

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  1. “I did break the internet. Honestly, like, I was just having a conversation with somebody about conspiracies because I think everybody had been through this reckoning with just seeing more and more of it, these conspiracies all over the place. It was really after QAnon had really started dominating the internet. And we were getting the lead up to the election. And I was having conversations with somebody about like, if you had to believe in a conspiracy, which conspiracy would you believe in? Just like, this is ridiculous that I know some of these are hateful and I need ways to categorize them to make it make sense in my own head. To be like, at what point, you know, what conspiracies are true? At what point are we genuinely asking questions about power? And then at what point are we just being really anti-Semitic?”

    2022-01-30 · Pod Save America · Offline: Abbie Richards on Fighting Disinformation on TikTok · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I really go with intent. For the two, I think the biggest difference is disinformation. I have an idea of disinformation. It's false information that's spread with the intent of causing harm and spreading lies. Misinformation doesn't necessarily have that intent. And it is more of an umbrella term that I'll use a lot of the time for both.”

    2022-01-30 · Pod Save America · Offline: Abbie Richards on Fighting Disinformation on TikTok · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “This wild increase in conspiracies on the platform, and it really wasn't being moderated well at all, seeing it in my comment section, seeing it in my recommended videos, and seeing creators that I know also struggling with it and struggling with harassment or struggling with censorship or perceived censorship. It's kind of unclear sometimes on TikTok. And no one was really diving into it and I found it really fascinating.”

    2022-01-30 · Pod Save America · Offline: Abbie Richards on Fighting Disinformation on TikTok · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Deep dive on this, but anytime you hear about a secret group of evil masterminds controlling the world. This will be fun. And by fun, I mean I will progressively get less sober.”

    2022-01-30 · Pod Save America · Offline: Abbie Richards on Fighting Disinformation on TikTok · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Basically, it moves from grounded in reality up to detached from reality. The conspiracies at the bottom are things that actually happened, like Watergate or the Tuskegee experiment. Then we pass a speculation line and enter the We of Questions category. These things are sus. What's good with UFOs? Do we live in a simulation? We don't know. Once we leave reality, we hit the unequivocally false but mostly harmless section. Was Avril Levine replaced by a woman named Melissa? No, and she'd probably like for you to stop saying that, is Stevie wondered, faking his blindness? Of course not stop making people prove their disabilities to you, it's weird. Once we pass reality denial we're in quite dangerous territory. Denying basic science, medicine, history harms you and society at large. That's the kind of stuff that makes pandemics last longer. And finally we hit the antisemitic point of no return. The end of every conspiracy theory rabbit hole is the Jews. Believe me, I've checked.”

    2022-01-30 · Pod Save America · Offline: Abbie Richards on Fighting Disinformation on TikTok · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source