That isn't the point. The point is that Grace lives in a reality in which she is obsessed with Biden and the Easter Bunny or whatever. Because that is the media she is consuming and that is fed to her by YouTube and other algorithm driven social media.Josh wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:53 amWhich is?Ken wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:55 amYou are completely missing the point.Josh wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:12 am None of this changes the fact that Grace merely stated facts. The response has been to somehow attack that she shouldn’t have gotten to learn those facts because of “search bubble”, which is an odd position to take.
Everything she said that I could check was valid and true. So why the discomfort with what she said?
Is anything Grace said false?
Whereas everyone else lives in their own separate social media reality generated by their own personal algorithms. Our reality isn't just what is true. It is what we pay attention to. The stream of information circulating the globe at light speed every second is so enormous that each of us can only consume a tiny microcosm of it. So our reality is determined by what tiny fraction of that information is pushed to the top for us to consume.
This is a completely different world from the one that existed pre-internet in say the 1950s. When everyone in the country basically consumed the same printed news produced by the same few wire services and big newspapers where editors decided what information to present and what to ignore. And we had just a couple TV and radio networks that also did the same thing and screened what we heard through people like Walter Cronkite and Paul Harvey. And then a few popular magazines like Life, Readers Digest, Saturday Evening Post, Time Magazine, that did the same thing for longer-form news and information.
In the 1950s All Americans were basically living in the same information reality and mostly heard the same news. Which isn't just about what things are true or false. It is about what things are elevated to the top of the pile as news and what things are not.
Those days no longer exist and today we all inhabit different realities based on what our algorithms are pushing, each one different from the other. At least those who consume information via social media. Grace bringing up Biden's foibles in this thread is a perfect example of that. Each one of us has a different "bespoke" reality custom tailored just for us, and a different set of information that we consume.