They can determine whether something occurred by using real facts that lead to the event happening but it didn’t really happen in history.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44640959
https://uxdesign.cc/the-psychology-of-why-social-media-is-so-addictive-67830266657d
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/social-media-manipulation-human-behaviour-profit-john-paul-drake
The dog is a survivor and he instinctively knows that in a contest with Nature as the opponent, one must use one's survival skills to live. The man, a greenhorn, has no survival skills at all.