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By Frank Bruni

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years.

At what point are we doing more and worse than stewing in deeply partisan television content, chomping on the social media chum that has been algorithmically hurled at us, wading through digital slop, dodging deepfakes and seeing, through warped glasses, useless shards of the shattered truth?

At what point have we altogether exited reality?