Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
Rightly said. The idea that social media is somehow more true or less prone to corruption than traditional mass media is delusional.It's laughable that you think social media is more of a tool for getting real news out than fake news.
Social media is exactly how ppl ended up believing in shit like q anon, flat earth etc. Etc.
Not saying mainstream news isn't biased...they are. They selectively report certain things and ignore others...but they don't flat out lie making false stories.
Social media, especially unmoderated, gives any idiot the ability to spread the wildest lies to gullible uneducated or elderly ppl and have masses of them beleieve it
Take a look at totally unmoderated 4chan (or its grandchild) and tell me if that's a place to get good news about reality.
Right. I've always considered myself somewhat of a centrist.I think the closest we can get to reality is taking the most reputable right wing news (fox) and most reputable left wing (CNN msnbc etc.) And reading both and coming to our own conclusions. People that only consume one side are living half of reality.
I think political "truth" has always been somewhere in the middle of both sides, but recently certain mass media has become so deranged it no longer even reports news and has become pure propaganda narrative 100% designed to influence how people think instead of reporting actual events, such as Fox.