Can we trust our own judgements? Or are we all victims of clever marketing techniques?

Election hackers and commercial influencers have wildly different aims, but both contribute to the unreal, distrustful tenor of our times, in which a language of fakery, deception, and inauthenticity has become fundamental to how we interpret the world. The fear of being influenced affects our sense of reality and our ability to trust our own judgments about what is true.