Correct me if I'm wrong but if you look at a story about someone who was struck by lightning the [internet software?] that works in the background will give you another story about someone getting struck by lightning the same way that if you look at travel sites you get a lot of travel site advertisements. Now here's where it gets dicey. If you not only get hits about lightning you might also get hits that says that lightning is due to global warming. Then you get hits on global warming real science or opinion. The software in the background sees that you are more likely to read those stories that are scientific. They know a lot about you.
So the viewer thinks that a lot of the news is about scientific global warning and getting hit by lightning. If you are getting your news from facebook you may be getting fake news from a source outside of the country.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think we are choosing what we want to read and honorable and dishonorable sources giving us what we want. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
I watch a bit of youtube and youtube suggests what I would like to view. So I get a lot of hits on the presidents, one in particular, Joni Mitchel and actor interviews.
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