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[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 144 points 4 months ago

i think actual information is way too difficult to suss out these days with the misinformation campaigns and the paywalls and the trolling, etc.

shit try to do some comparison shopping today and try to figure out which reviews are real and if the thing you're buying is really the thing you think you're buying.

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Another issue is that information is easy enough to find that people don't bother to remember things as much anymore, since they can just look up the majority of stuff on Wikipedia or something if they ever need to know it. It leads to people having a smaller pool of background knowledge, which makes them easier to mislead.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I question whether or not this is true. People will remember things if they find them interesting, so incurious people didn't know much in the past, either.

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