- [[{3.2a1} the mirror world is where people end up when their views are too extreme or fringe for traditional social media]] - in the mirror world, klein [[Klein, Naomi - 2023 - Doppelganger|writes]], “there is a copycat story and answer for everything, often with very similar keywords.” - i think she’s picking up on the way [[diagonolism describes the combination of disparate political and cultural ideologies between the right and left|diagonolist]] and extremist pundits are part of the mechanism by which [[{3.1b} data voids are gaps in information online|data voids]] are [[{3.1b1} media manipulators exploit data voids by capitalizing on missing data and the logic of algorithms and search engines|manipulated]]. - this works, in part, because [[{3.2a1b} once an issue is picked up in mirror world, it becomes untouchable]]; there is little authoritative content debunking or fact checking these people – and if there was more, it probably (a) wouldn’t reach the right people, and (b) [[{3.1b1a2} media literacy will not bridge epistemological gaps|wouldn’t matter them anyway because they see our sources as unreliable]].