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Re:EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm by pfannkuchen on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:17AM (#44613028)
This implies that the period with massively more centralized control of information had a truer consensus reality.

That seems… unlikely?

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Re:EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm by beezlewax on Saturday July 19, 2025 @04:12AM (#44613566)
It was better than the illusion of freedom of information a lot of people have now. In reality mass manipulation is happening on a global scale at unprecedented levels.
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Re:EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm by neltnerb on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:23AM (#44613058)
At least they mostly felt the need to pick a single consensus reality to approximate. How well it represented common experience, well...
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Re:EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm by maxerickson on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:52PM (#44617119)
It wasn't that centralized (many many independent newspapers and such).

And then "information" is doing a lot of work when you start talking about social media.

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