Subj : Re: Family vs Politics -
To   : Dumas Walker
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Jan 17 2025 08:19 am

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to NEOSHOCK <=-

 DW> Indeed.  There are people who not only get their news mostly from
 DW> Twitter/X but that also believe that this is the best way to get it.
 DW> <shrugs>  If I know that is how they feel, I very much discount any
 DW> information they share with me re: current events.

I do get a lot of news via twitter. When I say "get", that doesn't mean
liking the headline, though - it means clicking through, reading the
article, and considering the source. That's what's missing today, a good
sense of skepticism.

I don't think we can recover from social media, though - it's designed
for quick bites, quick dopamine hits, holding on to eyeballs as long as
possible and is a wonderful growth media for disinformation.

Given Twitter and Facebook's alignment with Trump (either due to
economic benefit or not being threatened with jail time by the
president) I don't see anything changing.


 
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