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Elsa
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Post the election, the fake content has taken over what I see, to the tune of upwards of 95%. This is by my discernment. 

Are other people seeing this? I am asking, if you see a person on a video talking or a podcast or whatever, do you see a real person, who is earnest, or do you see something else.

If the answer is "something else", what is it that you see? Grifter? Propogandist? Employee? Actor?  Decepticon? What?

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Allie
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Sometimes I think it’s a person trying to be a hero for a sector of people. They’re very identity-centered (as if the identity is the same as a personality). When I see young ones, early/mid-20’s, my first inkling is dismissive. But social media following at that age is very foreign to me, meaning I’m trying to image what it’s like through my experience, which is non-existent.

Young and old, though, the types that are 100% in a vacuum or an echo chamber, I assume….they go hard and they have a following.

The examples above were from X.  I know that I see on my YT feed is result of the of the algos. I wonder what I would see if I logged out of YT. I think YT algorithms heavily target my viewing preferences because I am less likely to just wander aimlessly as opposed to X.

Not sure if this made sense.

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Elsa
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I should have asked, can you see the psych warfare?

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@elsa Yes. That’s it.

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I have made a decision to absent myself from the media at all ... I know I am a porous person and I don't want my emotions manipulated that way. Yes, I can see the psych warfare. I don't feel that consuming it is useful for me.

I used to be all-in, I was completely taken by it. I now think that it's better to simply be apart from it, for the most part, so you can make your own decisions. At some point you have to

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I feel the same. Constantly fueling negative emotion and worse, much worse.

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It's a wonderful massage for your cognitive dissonance. Pamp it!

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