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At this point, I think it's a feature. Just like how when Russia does propaganda, they lie so big it's easily disproven, so once someone bites down on it they're pulled into a fake world
The old style of US propaganda was to flood the zone - bury what you want to hide out in the open and add so much more information people can't be bothered to learn about it.
The new style (even before chat gpt) seems to be an ocean of bots and bullshit. Who cares if you can spot a bot if you already don't trust anyone online? It's destroying organic communication so we're forced to go to a central source, which are controlled