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There's a simple answer to that, and it is before Trump, it wasn't obvious that social media of all kinds was dominated by propaganda. Now we are aware, now the
by aaron-lebo 9y ago
There's a simple answer to that, and it is before Trump, it wasn't obvious that social media of all kinds was dominated by propaganda. Now we are aware, now there's a reaction. You are missing the causality.
If there's a legitimate problem with society, why does it matter who points it out? I don't like the messenger was never a valid response to criticism.
- malvosenior 9y agoMy point is that most people who aren’t politically motivated to say so don’t see this as a “legitimate problem”. I know I see no issue with social media. Is it really worse than TV or newspapers? I don’t think so.
- maxerickson 9y agoThe feedback loops inherent in attention based (advertising funded) social media content selection are potentially more problematic than TV or newspapers. TV and newspapers have them, but they don't work as fast and it is harder to place content in those channels.
- Alex3917 9y ago> before Trump, it wasn't obvious that social media of all kinds was dominated by propaganda There were tons of articles written about this before Trump, they just didn't get any page views until afterwards. (E.g. check my submission history from before the election.) It was very very obvious, but people didn't start caring about the issue until after the election when it started getting promoted by Democrats for propaganda purposes.