Wikipedia.org considers that Gish gallop (Gish's gallop) or the machine gun of fallacies "is a technique of controversy that attacks the opponent with as many arguments as possible, without taking into account the accuracy or solidity of those arguments" and would have as side effect the impossibility of conducting a calm and constructive debate, as any strategy of the adversary is minimally disarmed.

This manipulation technique would have found its natural habitat on digital websites and social networks. Thus, once false information, semi-truths or distortions are prepared, they are sent at the same time to the set of digital websites and then they are turned into networks like X. Subsequently, these fake news will be collected through the print media and, using the "spiral of silence" of the mass media, they achieve the objective of conveying to the public the idea developed in the disinformation laboratories.

The successive and continuous appearance of bullets or fake news prevents a minimal rational strategy to nullify them, since, de facto, each point raised by the "gishian galopante" takes more time than to be refuted or verified than to be enunciated". If we add to this a journalistic practice, conditioned by the lack of exegesis or objectivity of the opinion articles and the finite of the journalistic deontological code, we have as a result a positive feedback loop that manages to inoculate the lobe or disinformation in the plane encephalogram of the critical conscience of today's society.

Germán Gorraiz, analyst