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I was reminded of a post I read recently about how “AI” is going to cause so much spam and disinformation (intentional or otherwise) and so much erosion in credibility, that the only reliable sources of news will be trusted networks of friends, not popular news media outlets, whose reporting will be either credulously fake, or manipulated.

And it dawned on me: for a small group of US citizens, *this is already the reality of today*. People in cults, conspiracy theory groups, and MAGA circles *already* believe that news media is credulous or manipulated (“fake”), and that the only reliable sources of news is their trusted circle of like-minded friends, who only confirm their biases and keep them tied to their dogmas.

(cont’d)