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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html
"Such a loss of any anchoring “reality” only makes us pine for it more. Our politics have been inverted along with everything else, suffused with a Gnostic sense that we’re being scammed and defrauded and lied to but that a “real truth” still lurks somewhere. Adolescents are deeply engaged by YouTube videos that promise to show the hard reality beneath the “scams” of feminism and diversity — a process they call “red-pilling” after the scene in The Matrix when the computer simulation falls away and reality appears. Political arguments now involve trading accusations of “virtue signaling” — the idea that liberals are faking their politics for social reward — against charges of being Russian bots. The only thing anyone can agree on is that everyone online is lying and fake."
A classic from last year, if only it was so simple.
There are a ton of theories out there everytime something bad happens on the internet, a matter of great importance. Many of them a clickbait creative exercise and hence a fake, more fuel to the engine. As if we don't have enough with the information overload.
"Such a loss of any anchoring “reality” only makes us pine for it more. Our politics have been inverted along with everything else, suffused with a Gnostic sense that we’re being scammed and defrauded and lied to but that a “real truth” still lurks somewhere. Adolescents are deeply engaged by YouTube videos that promise to show the hard reality beneath the “scams” of feminism and diversity — a process they call “red-pilling” after the scene in The Matrix when the computer simulation falls away and reality appears. Political arguments now involve trading accusations of “virtue signaling” — the idea that liberals are faking their politics for social reward — against charges of being Russian bots. The only thing anyone can agree on is that everyone online is lying and fake."
A classic from last year, if only it was so simple.
There are a ton of theories out there everytime something bad happens on the internet, a matter of great importance. Many of them a clickbait creative exercise and hence a fake, more fuel to the engine. As if we don't have enough with the information overload.
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