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> People get propagandist content because they willingly consume propagandist content. They like it.

More like that content creates engagement and ad money, and people respond to it even though they feel worse. (Not exclusive to news, social media too)

By the way people also like hyper-palatable processed food and that doesn’t mean we get to ignore the material consequences of the obesity epidemic.




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