And so the narrative has two parts. One is the bridging part, which is to ensure that people see what everybody agrees on as basic facts or as the general sentiment people can get behind are accurately presented as bridging. So that’s one narrative. Another is the balancing narrative. That is to say, to fairly topicalize what are the remaining divisions and what are the strongest arguments from both, instead of presenting one strong argument and a fake argument from the other side. But if you look at conspiracy theory or polarization, that’s exactly the tactic they’re using on social media. So basically, they invert the Hutchins Commission. They present one extreme as news and denounce the other side by making straw man arguments to the other.

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