After research tests, psychologists were a little bit concerned. They found that people tended to rate a statement as true, or more likely to be true, if they had heard the statement before, even if they had originally known the statement to be false the first time they heard it. Now, psychologists caution that when confronted with lies, people do still tend to be fairly discerning and aren’t necessarily tricked that easily, or by that trick alone, but it shows it can certainly at least be a part of an effective misinformation strategy. In a place like Nazi Germany, where information was fully controlled, and it was hard to even get access to the viewpoint that spoke the truth, we can see how some normal people had the wool totally pulled over their eyes.
