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It is EXACTLY why it is happening

It couldn't be worse? Lol, you got NO idea. And obviously never learned history, nor read international news.

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Turns out having an algorithm to show people only what people like them want to see is incredibly bad for social education. Who knew? There are ways to address this, but so long as we continue within the confines of the current media environment there is little to challenge those who take advantage

Grow rich off the idiocy

Bingo. There is no left wing media, it's all corporate.

Like a perfect circle

Any lie becomes true if you tap your shoes together 3 times…

Nodding in systems theory

Agreed

Important to remember that the internet, every last byte of it, is enemy territory.

you don't go to information war with the environment you want...

Absolutely, Dan — clarity and accurate information are more crucial than ever. Misinformation can create the perfect storm for unexpected outcomes. 🌐💡

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Fox News was recognized by many as gangrenous early on in its life. This nation let the virulence grow without the merest attempt at cleaning it up.

So where are they walking? How is it going to help?

I had such high hopes for the Internet.

Supposed titans of tech are shining the shoes of one the most stupid people on the planet (yet they want to push their AI crapola as though it is super smart). The 'Let them eat cake gang'. bsky.app/profile/thet...

There's millions of people with a surprising and really bad day bearing down on them.

BOTH!

A big part.

Millions of Americans are SO easily fooled it's scary. They believe that America is the John Wayne of the world. They believe that Trump is the mega-boss of The Apprentice. They can't tell the difference between tv and reality. Now wait till AI fully fires up. Scary!

Schrödinger state ?

Real journalism was totally unprepared to figure out how migrate away from print and monetize their work, as the information age stampeded into our society. They made themselves ripe for that corporate takeover, and takeover corporate certainly did.

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Yep. By design. Information deserts. Nothing grows here anymore.

This is the worst information environment, in the US, in my lifetime. But, it could easily be MUCH worse. They didn't call it 'The Dark Ages' because it was cloudy.

Very much a chicken/egg scenario.

It's actually the MAIN REASON ! PROPAGANDA works ! It really works !

It's the only reason we are in this environment. The mainstream media is a major player in the coup and should absolutely be held responsible when the reckoning comes. CBS, FOX, NYT, WP...any and all of them should be banned for treason. Without consequences (J6) it will happen again.

I feel like this level of shitstorm and corruption has probably occurred before, but in a pre-internet society hardly anyone would know, or find out, or believe it. Maybe that's why investigative journalists have become so lazy, they're becoming used to the public knowledge just being sent to them.

We should have fought smarter

I think becoming an adult without understanding what adults before you have done, whether good or bad, to make the world how it is today is to risk making those same mistakes again. Which, for the people asking us to forget, seems to be the point.

I have long since come to believe that our hijacked information environments are the central root of all of these problems

Which is, I believe, as intended