I am sure that creature will find something better to do with itself some day.
That doesn't indicate that people get to choose which facts they choose to believe, only that the facts presented to them may not be of utmost relevance. The real time interactive dehumanization component meanwhile has no parallel in any previous time period, at least not one that people impose on themselves by the millions.
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It is ever thus. A few days short of 27 years ago: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1994/03/01