What bothers me is when somebody comes along on Youtube or Twitter or wherever and says:
“All media is corrupt. Let me tell you what’s really going on”
and people believe what they say, not noticing that that somebody is _also_ media.
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I’ve watched otherwise intelligent people easily fooled by someone with a following who presents themselves as “the alternative to mainstream news” and simply being “alternative” makes them automatically believed.
They shut off their reasoning centers, relieved to see “alternative” and automatically trust what’s being said.
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