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Jan. 10th, 2020 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsWhen it comes to investing, the vast majority of the public now uses index funds. In other words, when it matters financially people don't rely on private information in their decision making.
On the other hand, we see an explosion of conspiracy theories on social media, propagated and exploited even at the level of the President of the US. In an interview a couple of years ago, Rep. Nunes said that the ratio of conspiracy theory letters to issue letters flipped completely to something like 5:1. Furthermore, Facebook and Youtube make it now possible to target susceptible people with specific political ads. In other words, in politics people's decision making is highly influenced by the perception of having access to relevant private information.
Why is this divergence?
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/ar-BBYObjg?li=BBU4PL8
On the other hand, we see an explosion of conspiracy theories on social media, propagated and exploited even at the level of the President of the US. In an interview a couple of years ago, Rep. Nunes said that the ratio of conspiracy theory letters to issue letters flipped completely to something like 5:1. Furthermore, Facebook and Youtube make it now possible to target susceptible people with specific political ads. In other words, in politics people's decision making is highly influenced by the perception of having access to relevant private information.
Why is this divergence?
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/ar-BBYObjg?li=BBU4PL8
A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results, and current and former law enforcement officials said they never expected the effort to produce much of anything.
