Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”1 Except that is not true anymore. Both sides in politics, and probably other things, do have their own facts today. Fox vs. CNN/MSNBC. The New York Times vs. The Wall Street Journal editorial page. People watching/reading one silo of information vs. people watching/reading another. People really do have different facts today, which means you can see why their opinions differ – because their facts are different.
And what may be even worse is that most of the people watching/reading in different silos don’t even understand that people watching/reading in other silos see things differently. They still think there is only one set of facts and that everything else is just misinformation or disinformation.2
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