(04-03-2023, 12:02 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(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.

This is a great example on why I follow the individual and not the organization or company relaying that individuals message (with a few exceptions)..

CNN, Fox, MSNBC ect.. All of them are guilty of construing the individuals message to fit their own personal agenda, good or bad. So I, like many others, ditched those media outlets and began getting information straight from the horses mouth. 

Now whether or not that information is factual is a different story. I can easily believe scores of people debunking a statement on Twitter over a news media outlet debunking that same statement.

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