This thread reminds me of the conversation we have had about how different people are reacting to the deluge of statstical data.
My first assignment while an undergraduate at university was to look into the media landscape in Poland during communist times. More specifically, exploring how people produced and interacted with information in a situation of censorship, and the context within which this was happening. I guess @Wolha and @Jan will have a lot more to say about this. But my own (limited) understanding is that people developed an ability/extraordinary skill at communicating and “reading” with a kind of split vision. In a situation like this, how do you filter between speculation, reported facts, disinformation etc ?