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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @09:14PM
That half would be the one which welcomes third-world savages with their no-joke actual 100% real rape culture.
That half would be the one that thinks the Tower of Babel is a story with a happy ending.
That half would be the "antifa" (anti first amendment) supporters, silencing Milo (a foreign-born Jewish gay with a black boyfriend) because he spreads an unapproved (conservative) message.
As for "very greediest assholes", George Soros is hard to beat. That paragon of liberal virtue cost the UK billions of pounds, leading to the UK being a non-Euro country and ultimately choosing Brexit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday [wikipedia.org]