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And I see it as a distinction without a difference. Whatever the underlying catalyst, now have a culture of misinformation and half truths that is readily observable on a large scale coupled with a generally equal resistance to correction. Again, I'm speaking to the larger ramifications of this mentality in general far more than I'm harping on the specific Powerball math nonsense.
Take the Mandela Effect, for example: people are so resistant to the notion that their memory isn't quite what they would like it to be that they would rather take a strong stance that the timeline has shifted or Hitler did some wacky occult sci-fi hullabaloo and parallel universes are merging because, by god, it's Interview with A Vampire, NOT Interview With THE Vampire. It's BerenSTEIN, not BerenSTAIN, because, by all that is holy, that's how they remember it.
Rather than accept that people tend to embellish in even small ways and likewise tend to misunderstand how the human memory actually works, they choose to believe that this is all caused be elements of two universes getting swapped out.
So, again: people see something that sounds correct, don't bother to question it, and pass it along. It's not "malice" per say but it is lazy and generally harmful to varying degrees, dependent upon the overall significance of the information being misrepresented.
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