Before the internet I thought that collective stupidity was caused by poor access to information.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Man was I ever mistaken!

[tirebiter]

1. One of the points of Cambridge Analytics

Was/is to find the stupidity and exploit just enough of it.

[lapfog_1]

2. signal to noise ratio

it's that the internet is flooded with so much falsehood that it is hard for many to discern the truth (pick up the signal from the noise). Much like modern communication electronics, it takes a lot of processing to find the signal...

[DBoon]

3. ... and to prevent interpreting the noise as a signal

nt

[underpants]

4. There are three industries that always are first to exploit new technology

Think about it:
From cave drawings to movable type to printed illustrations to radio to tv to VCR’s to the inter web three industries are always right on top of getting out their product (often a message)

Religion
Porn
and Wrestling (violence)

Exploiting people is the Management side of the worlds oldest profession

[empedocles]

5. Low information rw voters may not even have heard of 'the squad', et al.

More [bad] information fox viewer type voters, who see conspicuously on fox, Dem the 'socialist' types, - are more likely to think [feel?] those left types are representative of Dems in general, than the low info voters.

[NNadir]

6. Indeed you were mistaken.

[guillaumeb]

7. Many people filter their information through their own preconceptions.

Trump voters generally demonstrate this, except for the racists who voted for Trump because he is a racist.

[msongs]

8. twitter. nt