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the new thing is how people are consuming information and news, we are getting mainstream news pumped into our facebook feeds or via twitter and it accumulates

by keithnz 10y ago

the new thing is how people are consuming information and news, we are getting mainstream news pumped into our facebook feeds or via twitter and it accumulates all these different people pushing various views as part of the narrative in the commentary. News seems to encourage it by engineering story headlines / content to generate as much activity as they can while still trying to appear legit.

mirimir 10y ago
Right, if you browse ED or LJ, your guard is up. But when armies of Twitterbots are blasting, it's hard to tell.
- fwn 10y ago
  If anything, stuff gets less trustworthy when forced into 140 characters full of weird grammar tricks to keep the limit.