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The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine | The Atlantic(www.theatlantic.com)

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Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
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Excellent reply.

Honestly, I think it’s both. But you may be correct, sadly that’s it’s more about being able to hang on to beliefs for the most part.

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I actually also think it’s probably both, to a degree, that’s just not what the author of the article is arguing. I think there’s probably a certain amount of persuasion that is pulling people deeper into a belief system that they might only be partially invested in at first, and then they are sucked into ecosystems that reinforce those beliefs and pull them further in. I don’t have anything but vibes and lots of half-remembered reading about online radicalization, though.

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