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Is it really worse than traditional media, which glorifies violence and mass shootings? Or Twitter and it’s propensity for mass outrage? Or the Reddit echo cham
by zeroonetwothree 4y ago
Is it really worse than traditional media, which glorifies violence and mass shootings? Or Twitter and it’s propensity for mass outrage? Or the Reddit echo chamber?
Of course all can be bad, I’m just not sure you’ve accurately identified the biggest offender.
- babypuncher 4y agoThey're all shit. My particular ire towards Facebook has more to do with scandals like Cambridge Analytica. I think the platform is uniquely positioned to act as a loudspeaker for politically motivated and dangerous misinformation in a way the other platforms aren't. We live in a world where actual vaccine skeptics are being given high positions of power in state-level health organizations, and I place the blame for that squarely on social media.
- disgruntledphd2 4y ago> I place the blame for that squarely on social media. So clearly you don't believe in free will? There's definitely an element of echo chambers in most Internet media (echo chambers like HN, for example), and it's definitely possible that this is driving increased polarisation, but it's not a slamdunk argument. tl;dr not just social media, there's a lot of other stuff going on too (like, for instance, the outsourcing of manual labour out of the US).