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by tjr225 2022 days ago
It is so strange to me specifically because the cohort that seems to be eating this up(my parents age, I mean) were the same ones telling me NOT to believe anything I read on the internet when I was young and the internet was new.

What happened?

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They started getting targeted with stuff aimed at their existing biases.

(Along with an endless stream of Minions memes, it would seem.)

It's easy to disbelieve what you read on the internet when it's one voice in a thousand. But increasingly, all thousand voices are telling you what you want to hear.
Age-related cognitive decline.