• RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Who stole your candy

      Cambridge Analytica in 2014 seems to have turned much of the online population attitude to that of dismissing human beings in favor of memes and disinformation. and the player who seeded anti-vaccination topics since 2013 on the Internet, that was documented in 2018 by John Hopkins university. my “candy” would have been teachers like Carl Sagan having enough students in the population that junk information wasn’t saturation… but since 2014 junk just seems to keep growing and expanding.