No Comment “Yet” on the Presidential Speech

The publication Semafor posted the following article yesterday about how people overestimate the amount of people that actually post “hateful material and misinformation.” Unfortunately American’s have the distinguishing and embarrassing recognition of having the most prominent poster of hateful material and misinformation as our President. Truly disgusting!

The article concludes that Americans felt more optimistic about the country’s condition when they learned that only a small number of persons were making the objectionable posts. The fault of the article is that they did not factor in the prominence of the poster. The most prominent purveyor of hate and misinformation in the world is our POTUS.

US internet users overestimate the actual number of people posting toxic comments online, and thus become overly cynical about the state of society, new research suggested. Americans believed that nearly half of social media users posted hateful material and misinformation, whereas in fact only between 3% and 7% do. The aggressive minority accounts for most of the posts, three studies found, giving a false impression that their views and behavior are widespread. The finding matches an age-old rule of the internet, which says that just 1% of members of an online community provide most of the content. The researchers found that when given accurate information about the rarity of toxic behavior online, Americans felt more optimistic about the country’s condition.