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> a 3rd world farmer who has no perspective outside their small village? I think this is a disappearing breed. Ubiquitous cell coverage means everyone knows w

• IntrepidWorm 5y ago
  To that effect, its worth pointing out that in many developing nations, facebook IS the internet. To say that this compounds all of the issues already discussed in this thread is a fairly drastic understatement.
• mavhc 5y ago
  Still a lot of people getting their crops burned because they knew about science and managed to grow a crop, and everyone else didn't and thinks they're a witch
• giantrobot 5y ago
  > Ubiquitous cell coverage means everyone knows what is happening everywhere now. I think this assumes facts not in evidence. Just because someone is "connected" doesn't mean they're automatically informed. As we see in first world countries, there's a lot of fucking morons that only listen to comfortable lies rather than uncomfortable truths. There's also industrial production of bullshit peddled by disingenuous actors taking advantage of that fact. Fleecing rubes can be very profitable. The very problem being discussed is Facebook trying to absolve themselves of bullshit peddling by blaming everyone else. They're blaming people for believing shit Facebook put in front of them under the guise of news. They're also fine taking money to promote bullshit as "news". Yet it's society's fault that they believed everything labeled news Facebook put in front of them.