I'm not fake.
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The discussion here isn't about traditional media (which has a lot of fakeness yes. But I'd like to imagine that musicians still love music, actors still love acting, and celebrity chefs still like sharing good recipes in traditional media).
The discussion here is about social media, of which Hacker News is just one of many.
There are certainly brigades who try to push their politics in here. But is that happening yet between you and me? I don't think so.
You have finite Attention. If you spend 10 minutes paying attention to this story, that time is gone for good and unavailable to be used on anything else.
In that sense HN has decided how your attention is allocated and shapes who you are. Since Attention is finite like Oil, Land or Gold there is a big ongoing war to capture or steal as much of it as possible. And all media that captures your attention shapes you. Just like once the British capture the middle east. Their actions shape the future of the middle east.