Mechanism
Content generated wholesale, never measured against reality, injected at later pipeline stages — astrology, conspiracy theories, propaganda, AI-generated text. Downstream selection criteria cannot easily distinguish measured from manufactured content.
Connections
- Defined in: The Information Landscape
- Discussed in: Ch 11 — AI as a New Kind of Node, Ch 1 — The Information Landscape
- Supported by: The Misinformation Age
- Evidenced by: An epidemiological approach to model viral propagation of memes, Information Evolution in Social Media, Memetics — a critique, Psychology of Virality
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