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>The advent of social media has made it too easy to spread dangerous levels of hate and false information online. It's clear that the "marketplace of ideas" is
by minikites 5y ago
>The advent of social media has made it too easy to spread dangerous levels of hate and false information online.
It's clear that the "marketplace of ideas" isn't self-regulating, just like the marketplace for healthcare or pork bellies also isn't self-regulating.
- Retric 5y agoSocial media distorts the marketplace of ideas. Things that seem dumb upon reflection may easily get shared without a thought. It’s the same effect that dumbs down reality TV. Charters can seemly pull inspiration from nowhere, but the people actually writing a script get time to reflect on what their going to say. Real people simply can’t pull that off, at best they can prepare for a debate with canned responses.
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- zepto 5y agoIs it? Instagram is around a decade old and Facebook is only around two decades old. Attitudes them today are quite different from how they were even 5 years ago. What other major institutional shift would we think was ‘clear’ after so short a time.