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And welcome back to coast to coast, George Norrie, along with Nick Begatch,

and we'll take calls with Nick next hour here on coast to coast.

Nick, with the advent of social media, is it easier or more difficult to control a human mind?

It's probably a lot easier just in terms of how much time most people spend on social media.

And, you know, you provide a lot of information if you really take account of it.

Not just there, but every single computer inquiry that a person makes. Most people draw their information now primarily from social media,

less from news networks. News networks have become less and less trusted over time.

And when you think about information generally,

we have more than we've ever had before,

and yet we've actually maybe become less educated in certain ways,

maybe just the abundance of it and more of it's for entertainment, less of it for learning.

But we, you know, when you think about just the way in which communication is generally changed

and really less of it personal, more of an impersonal, social media is a prime expression of it.

Why isn't social media schooling it and watchdogging some of these reports a little better, though?

I mean, I've seen reports of people that apparently have been killed or died, and you go and find out they're still around.

Well, you know, again, you know, when you think about just sort of how the systems work

or don't work, but as they get more sophisticated and and more accurate in what they project and then again what they

push because when you gather information about people you also feedback just that which is maybe the

most saleable the most consumable for that individual and that's's what we've seen more than anything else,

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