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Re:Scott Adams has died by riazrizvi on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:07PM (#46605079)
Elements of society slowly wise up to how they are being manipulated, as they are increasingly exposed to it. Now with modern AI the online manipulation tactics are getting worse. So as we find ourselves in that pool of ppl who see what is happening, we just stop using those platforms, and increasingly trust more human-human contact or long form video where people have a chance to state their positions.

Perhaps?

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Re:Scott Adams has died by jpadkins on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @10:31AM (#46617162)
I think it may be the opposite. The mass propaganda techniques that worked for so long (i.e. control of the narrative via the big 3 news networks) no longer work in the social media age. So you have a system that is trying more and more extreme tactics to regain control, and you have a population that is more and more agitated because they can see through the curtain and the implications are very unsettling.
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