"Shortly after the last Presidential election, we were flooded by a bottomless array of media missives trying to decipher the thinking of the American electorate. Most of these furrowed-brow thinkpieces tried to insist the U.S. public simply had very deep thoughts on complicated economic, immigration, and fiscal policy.

Very few were willing to candidly admit the truth: the average American has little coherent sense of how absolutely anything works (54% of U.S. adults read at or below a fifth grade level), and subsists on a news and information diet of lazy infotainment, agitprop and corporatist sewage.

Few if any of these post-election think pieces meaningfully acknowledged that the U.S. has a very bad right wing propaganda problem. A problem that's been percolating for decades (most notably with the rise of Fox News), and indisputably responsible for the rise of Donald Trump and modern U.S. authoritarianism."

https://karlbode.com/data-shows-elon-musks-x-quickly-rots-your-brain/