> To which the response is who are Google to influence how or what people think? Give people a long leash, but when they're way off to the end of the bell-curv

> To which the response is who are Google to influence how or what people think? Give people a long leash, but when they're way off to the end of the bell-curve of normality throw them a life-line. > It's easy to make up pure-nonsense examples that nobody believes... That's actually an example of things people do believe. If you engage with some of those wild outliers you can learn a lot, quickly. Some of them are trolling, but many of them have extremely firm convictions. Maybe it's Sandy Hook. Maybe it's chemtrails. It's usually a bunch of stuff, all tangled together.