View source for Category:Manufactured consensus

Claims built to look like many people independently reaching the same conclusion, when they were not.

Distinct from [[:Category:Suspected synthetic]]: there are people behind these, and that is what makes them harder. A machine writing on its own leaves a texture you can learn. A hundred paid or persuaded human beings leave the texture of a hundred human beings, because that is what they are.

See [[Iron Law of Cults]] for why every organisation large enough to have an inner circle eventually produces this without anyone deciding to.

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