I find this difficult to believe, because enormous sums are spent on social influence, through all possible channels. Capitalism doesn't waste that much money.
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Political campaigns also have demonstrably nil effect, still zillions are spent on them.https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/964163240380063747?s=20 …
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Confirmation bias is alive and well, however. Ironic that confirmation bias is a frequent problem when getting one's 'news' from an echo chamber.
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The only reason why I would think a “scientist” would call their sample size n = precious, while (so badly) arguing “the safehaveness” of social media, is because they are being paid by Cambridge Analytica to try to clean up their mess


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Blocked for disagreeing with my preconceived notions in this topic.
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Now that I've finished reading it, I have to say that that is an extremely generous interpretation of this "study" which merely averaged the entire "use online social media for news" survey respondent class and found that they didn't on net differ in a few self-reported measures.
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Bias can make real facts difficult to assimilate into a new worldview. Knowing I may be biased and unreasonable, I still believe that the study you link to has an incorrect conclusion. Money doesn't work like that. Money isn't stupid.
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That nicely explains why the would-be Halle synagogue shooter clearly tried to imitate the terrorist in New Zealand <irony off>. The flaw could be that it is not the average person that matters, but “the persuadables” (cf The Great Hack”).
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