The article discusses the manipulative power social media companies have over public perception, drawing parallels to the Bush administration's narrative control during the Iraq War. It critiques how political narratives can distort reality and influence public opinion, posing questions about whether current governance, reminiscent of the Bush era, faces a similar disconnect with the populace. With the pervasive influence of social media, the author warns about people being trapped in an 'algorithmic cage,' suggesting a deeper issue of misinformation and government accountability.
The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the populace, to keep them in a kind of algorithmic cage divorced from reality.
I now wonder whether it was merely premature...reality came crashing down rather rapidly-Bush's agenda failed in Congress, the American people came to view the war in Iraq as needless folly.
Those in what the adviser called 'the reality-based community' would be left 'studying that reality-judiciously, as you will,' highlighting the disconnect between political narratives and public perception.
Many Americans were wrongly convinced...that Iraq had played some part in 9/11 or that it had a large arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
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