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Memory is notoriously fallible, but some experts worry that a new phenomenon is emerging. "Memories are shared among groups in novel ways through sites such as Facebook and Instagram, blurring the line between individual and collective memories," says psychologist Daniel Schacter, who studies memory at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The development of Internet-based misinformation, such as recently well-publicized fake news sites, has the potential to distort individual and collective memories in disturbing ways."
How Facebook, Fake News and Friends Are Warping Your Memory
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(Score: 2) by https on Sunday March 19 2017, @04:45PM
If you think anybody should be a slave, you don't deserve discussion. History has shown this over and over, that some ideas are worth punching you in the face for expressing, rather than allowing the poison to spread.
And no, it's not possible to absolutely prevent a silencing tech from being used to suppress valid viewpoints as well. But once you're in a cage with two people overhead arguing over your price, you'll wish that something other than words had been used.
Offended and laughing about it.