Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls

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ProAm ◴[15 Mar 19 16:59 UTC] No.19401614[source]▶

>>19400591 (OP) #

I wish people still lived by the idiom "Don't believe everything you read". It's like social media stopped all forms of critical thinking in society.

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1. aiven ◴[15 Mar 19 17:57 UTC] No.19402345[source]▶

>>19401614 #

There are too much information these days. We literally don't have enough time to fact-check everything and therefor we pick the most believable version of a story and with that new info we shape our future selves.

"But you don't have to pick a side, just ignore this information altogether." For most minor info this strategy works, but when the same piece of info appears repetitively over and over again you start to believe it subconsciously or it moves from "minor" to "major/important info" group which we can't simply ignore.

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2. mistermann ◴[15 Mar 19 18:38 UTC] No.19402800[source]▶

>>19402345 (TP) #

I don't see why repetition requires one to arbitrarily pick a side, why can't one hold a position of undecided indefinitely? Almost no one seems to do that of course, but is there a good reason you see why people couldn't do it if we made a genuine societal effort to educate people on how to read the news critically?

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