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by veganhouseDJ 1570 days ago
This is such an insane war on "misinformation".

I would give anything to go back to usenet and that everything would be taken with a grain of salt because it is usenet.

That is never going to happen though. We are society of automatons now who have mostly outsourced their thinking to the mob/group mind of social media.

If you read Le Bon or Freud's work on group psychology it may as well be talking about social media in 2022.

"The feelings of the group are always very simple and very exaggerated. So that the group knows neither doubt nor uncertainty. It goes directly to extremes, if a suspicion is expressed, it is instantly changed into an incontrovertible certainty."