Seems to me the article is more pointing out that when discourse on a digital platform starts broadly diverging from what's happening in the real world, lots of people gradually catch on and stop paying attention.
Understanding what's real is hard and attribution is messy, but the conspiracy stuff that's flooded popular social media platforms since 2016 or so just isn't real. There are plenty of unfortunate souls caught up in the narrative, but far more people are turned off by it and move on.
heyitsguay|1 year ago
Understanding what's real is hard and attribution is messy, but the conspiracy stuff that's flooded popular social media platforms since 2016 or so just isn't real. There are plenty of unfortunate souls caught up in the narrative, but far more people are turned off by it and move on.