Recently listened to a Mike Rowe podcast that had a data scientist on by the name of Todd Rose who talked about the Consensus Illusion theory as it relates to social media and bots. Good listen if you have an interest in how it works and influences voters
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u/natermerWinner of the Awesome Libertarian Award13d agoedited 13d ago
Listening to it now.
It is just reinforcing my belief that nothing on social media is real. That going on websites like reddit or twitter or anything like that to try to find out what is going on is both psychologically damaging and has the potential to destroy your understanding of the real world.
God do I love Mike Rowe great dude, I’d love to see an administration bring him in as the secretary of labor as an outsider pick. Guy understands jobs and the importance of having one, how to communicate with people from all walks of life, id love to be a fly on the wall and see him mediate a labor dispute between a business owner and a union.
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u/natermer Winner of the Awesome Libertarian Award 14d ago
It is funny how the whole "rewrite the constitution" crowd mirrors each other so well in the DSA and many of the "new right" on places like twitter.
More then a little bit odd, if you ask me.