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Re:Why We Should Watch Less News by iamthirsty on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:05PM (#17877808)
> There are four billion people on the planet.

There is actually almost 8 billion, now.

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Re:Why We Should Watch Less News by godelmachine on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:51PM (#17878248)
I was going to say the same.

Maybe he meant 4 billion electronically connected people on the planet.

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Re:Why We Should Watch Less News by iamthirsty on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:31PM (#17878730)
That makes more sense, as it seems to be 4,156,932,140 total[0].

[0]: https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

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