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How much holocaust denial content should one expect to find? The internet has increasingly normalized nonsense. I'll bet plenty of people, post- the advent of s
by uniqueid 6y ago
How much holocaust denial content should one expect to find? The internet has increasingly normalized nonsense. I'll bet plenty of people, post- the advent of social media, would think 25%, for example, would be perfectly reasonable.
How much would one find in the pages of a newspaper, transcripts of a public conference, or publications in a university library? Would it even be 1%?
If this new normal on social media is enlightening people and making the world a better place, one would expect to see it reflected in the world around us. I don't think the general consensus is that society has been making big strides in a good direction, over the past decade.
- rbecker 6y agoThose are some fine rhetorical questions, but they don't shed any light on whether "actively promote" is grossly misleading in this case.
- uniqueid 6y agoOkay, I can't go all the way, and describe it as grossly misleading, but "actively promote" uses too strong an adverb. So, I'll concede that, strictly speaking, the headline is misleading. On the other hand, if a reader gets the impression that Zuckerberg and the other social media CEOs, to the extent that they can get away with it, signal-boost holocaust denial (and propaganda from hate-groups, in general), recent history speaks for itself. So if someone asked me to rewrite the title, I would go with "passively promote."