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I don't think ignoring the nutters is viable. Enough people are believing anti-vax lies to start bringing back deadly disease which affect more than just themse
by Jaygles 7y ago
I don't think ignoring the nutters is viable. Enough people are believing anti-vax lies to start bringing back deadly disease which affect more than just themselves. Enough people are believing climate change propaganda which is slowly harming the habitability of our planet for our human race.
What was once contained on the internet is leaking out onto the streets and is already affecting you and I in many ways.
- pnw_hazor 7y agoPropaganda has always been there. During the Golden Age of broadcast TV and Radio (pre-internet), the big networks broadcasted plenty of unchallenged lies. The difference now is that laymen can fact check the content put out by the big players. But the price for this is that every troll or nutter has access to the some of the same tools to spread their own lunacy. I far prefer the current situation over the previous. While it may have felt more comfortable when people believed that news readers were telling the truth or reporting truth, it never was that way.
- eeZah7Ux 7y agoTrolls (either human or bots) are way more dangerous that TV propaganda because the act as legitimate actors in the public discourse. It gives them the ability to hide between other people and manipulate the conversation.
- claytongulick 7y agoIt's interesting that you mention climate change in this, I agree that it's ground zero for demonstrating the phenomenon of expressing things as objective truth, or fact, that are much more complex than a simple binary.