# AIDS as a government creation - the power of disinformation

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 14, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aids-as-a-government-creation-the-power-of-disinformation/832550 "2019-04-14T19:58:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aids-as-a-government-creation-the-power-of-disinformation/832550/21 "2019-04-16T21:32:58Z")

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> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> . . . deep fakes, targeted mass communication, and individualized media bubbles, will effectively mean . . . there is no shared reality . .

That is a very good way to put it. The bubbles partition reality.

At one point, I thought that individual US states could form and sustain their own almost-bubbles, as could certain nations. Now, I am not even sure that a bubble can be sustained beyond a family.

So, yes, we are indeed fucked.

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