“the leading tech platforms opened the floodgates for propaganda…The result was a flood of lies and distortions flowing through our social media feeds. That led to possibly the most misinformed electorate we’ve ever seen.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/opinion/trump-musk-social-media.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/opinion/trump-musk-social-media.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Media is profit oriented, while education is a shared task of state and parents. Maybe we need to look there for answers!
As for media, people choose their preferred outlet. And the Media will serve its customers what the customers want.
the times has the audacity
the abject INSANITY
to publish this after what they’ve done
there is absolutely no difference between these two photographs
When the right lied through vitriol and projection, they ‘won’.
The rules of debate/forensics were bound in the fetal position while fascist propaganda bloodied the facts. Perhaps journalism is dead. The free press certainly is.
Create rules and enforce penalties for social media that fails to self-cleanse itself of propaganda, fake profiles, bots.
If you cannot keep a tidy house, you should have no business running a platform.
BlueSky would do better than most.
There is work to do…
How many years did they choose to not call out the lies from Trump and his sycophants? They failed to confront the truth.