Social media manipulation by political actors an industrial scale problem

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2. Social media needs to clean up their act, but we also need to up our game

Average folks have rarely if ever taken to heart the old adage Poe helped popularize...

“You are young yet, my friend,” replied my host, “but the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, without trusting to the gossip of others. Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

Poe short story, "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether"

Confirmation bias is easier and tough to overcome. Critical thinking is our greatest national deficit.