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I think social media algorithms have fried people's brains. Imagine we'd ban them, go back to content being kinda diverse and random, without adversaries able to game the system and push massive swaths of propaganda to people. The fact alone that most youths get their news from freaking TicTok of all places...
You know your local news network has a TikTok right? There’s nothing wrong with news from social media. The problem is that media is unregulated and people are allowed to lie and pass off that information factual.
That's not what people watch though. People get their news from "influencers", often time those with far right alignments, or straight from fascist parties who are the ones with the most reach on TicTok.
That's literally what the free press is, and a fundamental pillar of a free and democratic society. Regulated media is censored media, and exactly what fascists want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press
Being “press” does not give you blanket protection from lies. Alex Jones just lost his company because he lied about Sandy Hook victims.
Which one is it now?!
He didn't lost his company because he lied as a press entity, he was lying for years without issues, he lost his company because he directly defamed the victims and their loved ones, which caused a massive lawsuit by them that went in their favor. Even in the US there's still a few restrictions to free speech, and defamation is one of them.
Why would anybody bad them, >50% in the US just voted to expand them massively and apply them ~everything. Oh and that money for the masses sucks versus money for grifters only, so I for one welcome Freedom Coin 2025 which rugpulls about 2 weeks after introduction.
If it's propaganda to make people believe the truth, is it bad?
Depends who's the arbiter of truth. Still propaganda
Interesting hypothetical, but not what's happening.
It's a question. You know what a question is, right?
You people are so used to these weird games that every question must be an insinuation.
Well, you said that, not me. But thanks for the outing.
Am I wrong?
I guess we'll never know.