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> we'll be left with no choice but to turn back to the old news channels: real journalism This sounds naively optimistic IMO. It's not as if people were immune
by soraminazuki 1y ago
> we'll be left with no choice but to turn back to the old news channels: real journalism
This sounds naively optimistic IMO. It's not as if people were immune to false information before social media and LLMs took off. Technological advancements and free access to information promised us a better future of a well-informed society. Instead, it's increasingly turbo-charging the worst instincts of humanity, putting our very freedoms at risk. Grim as it sounds, I'm not seeing a way out of this.
- lazide 1y agoThis is why Fox news has such a hold on viewers - it tells them what an angry part of them hopes to hear, true or not.
- darthnebula 1y agoIt isn't just Fox News. CNN and all the others are equally as bad.
- lazide 1y agoThere recently has been a race to the bottom, but Fox has been false-outrage-baiting for decades before any of the other outlets did so. Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, et al. too. And really nasty too, at least until Fox and Alex Jones lost their respective lawsuits. No one is innocent here, but they aren’t equal (as in the same).