Legacy media had guardrails, at least. People could run advertorials, provided the word ‘advertisement’ or ‘paid advertisement’ were prominently displayed on the printed page. It is getting harder for people to understand truth because there is less difference now between earned/owned/paid media.

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This is an interesting non-academic observational study. (It would be interesting to try randomly assigning the influencers to be asked to do a non-disclosed post about politics vs. non-disclosed about something else, or non-disclosed vs disclosed.)

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Apologize. A trillion times!

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I didn't even get to tell him that my wife and I used "So Fresh, So Clean" as the entrance song for our wedding party. That would've shattered his soul into little pieces.

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Saw an undergrad in my class wearing an Outkast t-shirt and I told him that I was a big fan, and had even thanked them in the acknowledgments of my first book. And, friends, by the look on his face, I'm pretty sure this middle-aged man ruined them for him forever.

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