Hans Mahncke@HansMahncke
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This is a great article that everyone should read about the breakdown of sane public discourse grounded in shared facts. Instead of obsessing over fringe extremists who most people have never heard of, the far bigger problem are the vast numbers of ordinary people on social media who genuinely believe and internalize rage bait.

The algorithms have been a menace for years, relentlessly rewarding outrage and distortion, yet there was still a sense that a critical mass, for example those who re-elected President Trump, could see through the lies. AI now changes the equation entirely by injecting fabricated “evidence” directly into the rage bait ecosystem. The result is outrage-driven algorithms combined with realistic falsehoods at scale, leaving not just a few unhinged obsessives but huge portions of the public unable to distinguish reality from fiction.

https://x.com/HansMahncke/status/2017002335600615667

Citing to

https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/29/forget-about-online-groypers-instagram-influencers-will-be-the-real-death-of-america/

but article really doesn’t implicate AI at all. No doubt its coming.