People live in alternative realities depending on if they get their news from CNN, Fox, TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube, or BlueSky. Here's a recent clip from Joe Rogan that illustrates this perfectly [0]. He talks about the different perspectives of liberals and conservatives on USAID.
It's likely this will get exponentially worse once our social media feeds become full of AI imposters competing with one another for everyone's attention with outrage bait and fake drama and entire fabricated social media bubbles in which each user is made to feel like the ruler of their own little fiefdom.
Video and audio content appealing to every unique combination of biases, superstitions, and political orientation will be available in an endless deluge. I got a preview of this recently when I saw the surreal, gross videos YouTube Reels serves up to my toddler. Similar slop gets eaten up by easy targets on FB. But the slop is going to become more and more sophisticated until everyone is consuming it.
I can only hope the solution comes before it's too late.