MostlyHarmlessY'all remember, before the internet, when people thought the source of stupidity was lack of access to information? Yeah. It wasn't that.
Adrienne LaCava@MostlyHarmless Discernment requires better developed reading/listening abilities. What’s the buzz phrase—critical thinking skills?
jcristovao@adriennelacava @MostlyHarmless This right here.
We have a natural bias to 'believe stuff'. If school doesn't teach us to apply critical thinking and to not take all our input from the same 'political group' it has failed us, no matter what skills we might have memorized.
There are of course others that know what they are doing and are just cynical and manipulative, but I believe those to be a very vocal minority (but happy to be shown a study proving otherwise ;) )