Do you remember when we used to argue about how to interpret facts? Now, we’ve reached a point where we can’t even agree on what constitutes a fact.
Welcome to the crisis peak of our 24/7 digital feed—a relentless stream of algorithmically curated information to compound our biases for the sake of advertising revenue, that’s outpacing our ability to process, fact-check, or even differentiate between truth and fabrication.
The sheer volume of data, often emotionally charged and manipulated or flat-out made up in an enthusiastic major candidate’s stump speech filled with either hyperbole or gaslighting tactics to be clipped into a 15-second soundbite for one of the corporate-run news entertainment channels, fuels endless debates about reality itself.
So how did we get here? And what can we do about it to save productive public discourse we must, and preserve the American Democratic Republic from an uninformed electorate that no longer has easy direct access to the data it needs to make …
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