Junk Food

I wanted to emphasizes a particular passage from an interesting article . The entire article is certainly worth the read but it got me to thinking that maybe eliminating the echo chamber of social media in my life was only the first step. Now I need to reduce my news consumption. Not an easy task.

https://fs.blog/2020/02/illusory-truth-effect/

"How to combat the illusory truth effect

So how can we protect ourselves from believing false news and being manipulated by propaganda due to the illusory truth effect? The best route is to be far more selective. The information we consume is like the food we eat. If it’s junk, our thinking will reflect that.

We don’t need to spend as much time reading the news as most of us do. As with many other things in life, more can be less. The vast majority of the news we read is just information pollution. It doesn’t do us any good."