Marcus rubbed his hands together like a chef about to carve a goose. “I remember when the disinformation campaigns first hit the net, and I thought, ‘Oh shit, we made a monster,’ like all these conspiracy theories and filter bubbles were unstoppable, and there was enough terrible stuff going on in the world that anything was believable. But it turns out that for most people, any stimulus eventually fades—no matter how difficult it is to ignore at the outset. I mean, some people will always be susceptible, the same way some people will always want to play FarmVille or go to Vegas and feed
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