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I would bet, in autocratic, tyrannical countries which have history of disinforming and controlling info access if their citizens; those citizens are much more resistant to disinformation. They are cynical and question what they are told.

The USA population is extremely nieave and trusting.

Freedom of press and of speech have lot to do with it as well. It's hard to disinform populace who's information sources are controlled by your adversary

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That’s a really good point: like having a degree of immunity through prolonged exposure! Though couldn’t all that disinformation also mean that they eventually are bludgeoned into believing in whatever version of ‘reality’ has been constantly presented/ represented (or that they just simply ‘switch off’)? …reminds me of the idea of the ‘Overton Window’: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

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