I think the single worst way to be informed is by reading Tweets that claim to explain the whole story of anything. Its like a simulacrum of learning something because its purporting to give you news but its just like consuming slop for your brain that leaves you worse off.

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The right stoked distrust of the “mainstream media” so people turn to something that feels like they’re “doing your own research”, but really they’re just being stupefied by a stream of bias-affirming fiction. The plan worked.