Caroline Orr Bueno on Nostr: Conspiracy theorists prey on our cognitive vulnerabilities, but they rely on ...
Conspiracy theorists prey on our cognitive vulnerabilities, but they rely on emotional processes to reel people in and keep them coming back. Conspiracy theories don’t have to be logical or rational or even internally consistent to go viral — they work by creating the *feeling* that something is or even *could be* true, not by convincing people that they actually *are* true.
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