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    17 hours ago

    with some people unwittingly being mired in something and being led to believe that it is far more popular and normal than what it is, based entirely on their ever-increasing exposure to that thing

    Very apt description, thank you.

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        I would think this analogy is a bridge to far, as both (1) people are free to not participate in the case of specific online communities, and (2) prison population isn’t a great representation of the total population.