danah boyd explains the connection between the epistemological crisis and the rise of far-right conspiratorial thinking

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I don’t think I’m going out on a limb to guess that hardcore anti-vaxxers are considerably more likely to watch CDC videos about vaccines than a person who got their kids vaccinated when their doctor told them and never gave it a second thought.

Right. And they ultimately prefer the anti-vax videos, so when the college freshmen are assigned to write a paper about about a controversial topic, and they do their research with Youtube…