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by rhcom2 3008 days ago
I really doubt the US population is any more or less gullible than any other population and the ability of social media to be destabilizing is not uniquely American either. There is no mob of critical thinkers, it's always just a mob.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/14/technology/facebook-news-... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/14/how-400-russia...