From Sean Illing at Vox:
We live in a media ecosystem that overwhelms people with information. Some of that information is accurate, some of it is bogus, and much of it is intentionally misleading. The result is a polity that has increasingly given up on finding out the truth. This is partly why an earth-shattering historical event like a president’s impeachment did very little to move public opinion...
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