Re:Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook
by maxfurman on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:29PM
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On the Left, we used to make fun of Republicans for living in the Fox News bubble (Jon Stewart memorably dubbed it "Bullshit Mountain"), and how easily they were fooled by the constant stream of fake scandals (Death Panels! ACORN!). But this time we fell into our own bubble, hard. I'm sure conservatives in this thread will say we were in one the whole time, and maybe they're right. This election isn't Facebook's fault as much as humans' desire to believe what they want to believe.
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> This election isn't Facebook's fault as much as humans' desire to believe what they want to believe.
I like to say that humans are very efficient bias confirmation machines.
Of course, I may now just be saying this because your comment confirms my bias that humans are bias confirmation machines.
Objectivity - true objectivity - is incredibly hard, and most people are deluding themselves if they think they're anything approximating objective (and I count myself in that number!), IMO. I want to believe that I'm objective, but my observation that just about nobody else seems to be very objective suggests that I'm not, either.