"fifteen million people can't be wrong." what is fallacious about this statement?

a) it posits the premise that truth has nothing to do with popularity.
b) it posits that a premise can only be true if it is unpopular.
c) it makes numbers the means of figuring out a solution, rather than determining a problem.
d) it suggests that the truth of a thing is determined by the number of people who like it.

Is "they" an unstressed or stressed syllable?

Could someone me with this question?

How does crane's depiction of the way information was spread in the nineteenth century affect the novel? crane seeks to use the novel as a way to criticize the journalists of the time for how they glorified war as a means of union propaganda. by depicting the extent to which newspapers were circulated, crane seeks to expose the lack of unbiased reporting at the time. by giving newspapers a major role in the novel, crane seeks to make a connection between the increasing role of the military in national affairs and the decline of farming. crane captures the power of journalistic reports at a time when it was the primary means of transmitting information to a broad audience by showing its influence on henry.