Evidently, there are many psychological biases here on this thread on display. . . study some basic personality types, and one can classify personality types by posts and responses. There is also the survival bias on perfect display of how the human is wired to emphasis fear over pleasure as a survival technique. Having worked with data enough, performing predictive analytics, and having talked with Cambridge Analytica employees, who worked with the Facebook data during the trump campaign, yes, there is manipulation in information for even such things as A/B testing. And if you don't study intl events closely enough, you won't understand chinese and russian influences by information / disinformation is the easier way to take down a country than by force
If you have never heard of A/B testing in big data and marketing, you have no idea that you are being tested, tracked, and recorded for marketing of any type, whether products or information.
I see A/B testing on many web sites, so if you know for what to look, you can see it.
If you ever compare predictive analysis of the stock market with Bloomberg/CNBC/Reuters/ etc analysis of daily analysis, they are just winging it. If you don't know how to use options to create a gamma squeeze, you will believe what the newspaper or news channel will tell you. if you don't understand rotation or how to look for it, you will believe the daily market narratives.
So, for the posters who believe that they can discern facts from various news sources, unless you were there or part of the news, this whole discussion creates such cognitive dissonance that you use anchoring bias of the 60's and 70's to maintain your beliefs. Uou nless you were there, you really can't discern the facts as happened because you are evaluating all second hand information, which by definition, has biases built in. And if you think you have enough sources to create facts, you really are just reinforcing own beliefs to avoid cognitive dissonances. there are posters on here who give first hand factual statements, which conflict with their beliefs, and that information is totally ignored. that my friends is anchoring bias prevention of cognitive dissonance confusion. . . or slight variations of many other emotional biases.
if you don't understand this: "There is no factual reality, there is only individual perception", you are just looking for a re-inforcing bias echo chamber, which is what all social media platforms have as a social unintended consequence.
good luck all, but do realize that whether you agree or not, whether you understand how or not, you are being tracked, classified, and then attempted to be persuaded by many different sources, and so subtly that you will never notice, except with a few exceptions. and i say this as i have professional contacts who describe how they do it.
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