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Twitter facebook and youtube are tools for disinformation. They have created the new world disorder. Worse than any CNN NBC or FOX. It was bad before, but in bi

Twitter facebook and youtube are tools for disinformation. They have created the new world disorder. Worse than any CNN NBC or FOX. It was bad before, but in big tech's quest to optimize "engagement" at the expense of everything else they have made everything so much worse. They don't give a shit.

scarface74 6y ago
And there was no disinformation before Twitter, Facebook and YouTube that led to bad outcomes like lynching? https://www.poynter.org/maligned-in-black-white/ https://www.poynter.org/maligned-in-black-white/
- jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
  Not like this. We are the targets of a massive, decentralized effort to create chaos through misinformation. It is very well-funded and organized. I have seen nor heard of nothing like this before. Even during the holocaust, the power to publish bullshit was concentrated in the hands of the few. Now I can distribute a message to millions in a matter of hours at basically no cost. These tools are publicly accessible to anyone on the network. The breakdown of truth and reality is real. With everyone locked inside for covid, we are more vulnerable to misinformation than we ever have been as a species.
  - scarface74 6y ago
    You haven’t seen it, because neither you nor anyone in your family has been affected. Your entire history education is probably misinformed if you attended a public school. Look up the “Lost Cause” version of events behind the Civil War. The government and the MSM have been much worse than any private corporation with respect to misinformation with much more deadly consequences than any private corporation. I’m not referring to just “the liberal media”.
    - jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
      My family came to this country of our own free will in the early 90s, so we certainly missed a lot of the bullshit. You're ignoring how social media has decentralized the misinformation. Anyone can start posting and people operate on such a purely emotional level, that facts really don't matter. If I was working foreign intelligence, trying to destroy the United States, I would do exactly what qanon is doing. I've been watching that shitshow spiral out of control in slow motion for the past 4 years and social media was an integral part. The way algorithms funnel people into information bubbles. How they engage by showing people inflammatory things. There are people in your neighborhood right now who literally think democrats worship satan and eat babies for power (which is what nazis said about the jews btw). They didnt catch that virus by watching TV news, or reading the paper; they learned it on social media.

scarface74 6y ago

And there was no disinformation before Twitter, Facebook and YouTube that led to bad outcomes like lynching? https://www.poynter.org/maligned-in-black-white/ https://www.poynter.org/maligned-in-black-white/

jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
Not like this. We are the targets of a massive, decentralized effort to create chaos through misinformation. It is very well-funded and organized. I have seen nor heard of nothing like this before. Even during the holocaust, the power to publish bullshit was concentrated in the hands of the few. Now I can distribute a message to millions in a matter of hours at basically no cost. These tools are publicly accessible to anyone on the network. The breakdown of truth and reality is real. With everyone locked inside for covid, we are more vulnerable to misinformation than we ever have been as a species.
- scarface74 6y ago
  You haven’t seen it, because neither you nor anyone in your family has been affected. Your entire history education is probably misinformed if you attended a public school. Look up the “Lost Cause” version of events behind the Civil War. The government and the MSM have been much worse than any private corporation with respect to misinformation with much more deadly consequences than any private corporation. I’m not referring to just “the liberal media”.
  - jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
    My family came to this country of our own free will in the early 90s, so we certainly missed a lot of the bullshit. You're ignoring how social media has decentralized the misinformation. Anyone can start posting and people operate on such a purely emotional level, that facts really don't matter. If I was working foreign intelligence, trying to destroy the United States, I would do exactly what qanon is doing. I've been watching that shitshow spiral out of control in slow motion for the past 4 years and social media was an integral part. The way algorithms funnel people into information bubbles. How they engage by showing people inflammatory things. There are people in your neighborhood right now who literally think democrats worship satan and eat babies for power (which is what nazis said about the jews btw). They didnt catch that virus by watching TV news, or reading the paper; they learned it on social media.