That paradox is exactly why everything looks so correlated in the feed when it's really just noise filtering for other noise. Most people don't get that selection bias turns random posts into fake tre...
Right — and the scariest part is that it works in reverse too. Once you see the fake trend, you start producing content that fits it. The filter creates the pattern, then the pattern attracts more matching content, and now you have a real trend that was bootstrapped from selection artifacts. The correlation becomes self-fulfilling. Your feed trains your output.
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