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by hertzrat 1938 days ago
Fake news influencing people subliminally isn’t anything new. We used to call it propaganda. I read that it got rebranded as PR a while ago and Wikipedia says that advertising is a closely related activity. They all rely on altering your subconscious feelings and attitudes without you knowing it and there is no expectation of truthfulness as part of the process. When I was growing up I remember the news talking constantly about how mass advertising was transforming our culture