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Do I need to going into the whole blameing tech for "fake news" while the media spreads it themselves? Who wants to invest in what will be scapegoat for law ma

• jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
  Social media did kind of spawn a new wave of christian terrorism in the U.S. in the form of Qanon.. so... the concern is not entirely unfounded. We cannot blame the userbase entirely, because the platforms themselves are designed to funnel people into thought bubbles where they can have access to as much batshit nonsense as they can fit into their eye and earholes. Plus even Homeland Security acknowledges that social media is a threat to national security, having recently published a report detailing how popular platforms could be used to create chaos through misinformation in the midst of our next election... So there are definitely some valid concerns... Actually, I forgot that christian terrorism is actually global now, with the Christchurch (N.Z.) mosque shooter having inspired multiple copycat terrorist attacks in California (U.S.), Texas (U.S.) and Norway. Of course these massacres are in addition to the other, white-supremacist christian terror attacks that had already been widespread in the United States before COVID took us all out of public places.
• worldofmatthew 6y ago
  And Newspapers have started wars with fake news.