[gosub100]

Have you seen the stories / studies about how crowd sourced knowledge can be very accurate when taken in aggregate? I don't know the name for it, but if 1000 people guess how many peanuts are in a barrel, their errors cancel out and the average is quite close to the actual value. That's how I ingest social media comments.

[Karrot_Kream]

Wisdom of the Crowds has been shown to be overly idealized and not particularly effective unless aggressively controlled for independence of opinions. Basically, if you tend to hang out on similar social platforms you won't actually be able to fight bias.

Some papers about this:

* https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12216932/

* https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1008636108

I specifically find conversations about private equity to be highly polarized by community which is why I think it's a better idea to learn from first principles and then engage in the Internet commentariat.