(04-03-2023, 09:47 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: We need social media, though. I think we could do with less algorithms that cater to our biases, but the idea that information is open and available is good. It's what should be helping to combat our biases. I guess what I'm saying is make social media more organic.

Until social media becomes a tool of bias and selective information, a la Twitter before Musk.

Social media is more dangerous than the MSM because it does not operate under the guise and expectation of truth. Trump was able to use it to bypass the filters of the MSM. He caught the left by surprise. Now they control popular social media with the same ardent sense of intolerance as practiced in the media. 

It’s an evolving technology which does allow access to information. However, there are no constitutional mandates which hold them to accountability. Since Trump, it has become much less a source of open information and dialogue.

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