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Re:U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance ... by krapp on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:41PM (#34659704)
Yes, we are part of some kind of Truman show experiment. Every form of media you consume, which in aggregate forms much of your perception of the world at large and reality in general, is engineered to manipulate you with a narrative to serve someone's agenda, be that advertising, propaganda, psychological manipulation, addiction or manufactured consent.
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Re:U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance ... by lazyeye on Saturday February 04, 2023 @07:00PM (#34659895)
This is true but has got absolutely nothing to do with whether the balloon is being used for spying or not.
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Re:U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance ... by chii on Saturday February 04, 2023 @08:39PM (#34660695)
Without first hand, primary sources of information, the media and their dissemination of information (or lack thereof) is a form of manipulation to suite someone's agenda, and has a lot of analogs with the truman show.

For example, nobody right now, except may be the US military, knows whether it's a real spy balloon, or really just a weather balloon. But the media reporting of it has framed it as a spy balloon with high probability.

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Re:U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance ... by lazyeye on Sunday February 05, 2023 @03:57PM (#34669280)
Yes we can ignore the media because all the media is garbage, I agree on that. But I also believe that the the likelihood the balloon is being used for spying is probably pretty high.
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