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It's shocking how unaffected the graph is by who "ran" the country 2016-2020 in comparison to the other change-overs in the 90s and 00s. Is social media reinfor
by datameta 5y ago
It's shocking how unaffected the graph is by who "ran" the country 2016-2020 in comparison to the other change-overs in the 90s and 00s. Is social media reinforcing echo chambers which let one have no doubt in their views? Are our areas of discourse now more one-sided? Insular subreddits, feeds that are curated by a self reinforcing algorithms to not show you what you might disagree with...
There is Hypernormalization [0] through popular/state media's simultaenous support of opposing views, i.e. disinformation through doubt and plausible deniability (perfected by world powers, particularly Soviet/Russian regimes in the modern era).
[0] https://youtu.be/thLgkQBFTPw https://youtu.be/thLgkQBFTPw
- mym1990 5y agoI had an argument this past weekend with one of my former best friends from high school and through 10 years of watching the TV he has become a literal walking Fox News parrot. An incredibly smart guy and all he could come up with was 'look at the Fox News polls for this issue and if you can find me a counter CNN poll, we can talk'. It feels like a lot of people have turned like this, its almost like a zombie apocalypse of the mind.