Comment by baz00
1 year ago
I think it would be safer to remove all political posts from social media (both sides) as policy. There is a massive propaganda war on both sides and all it does is amplify sentiment, create further division, hurt more people and compromise security over time.
The press are bad enough at coming up with verified claims from the right people. Social media is 1000x worse.
Of course our current American social media dictators are pretty lax on doing anything positive for society as a whole while it benefits them.
How do you disambiguate "political" content from "content people want to share?"
The hard thing about "getting politics out of X" is that every time people are involved, politics is involved. Politics is just what people think the group should be.
> The press are bad enough at coming up with verified claims from the right people. Social media is 1000x worse.
No doubt. One of these days we might successfully drill into people's skulls "Stop getting your news from social media; that's not news that's rumors."
> No doubt. One of these days we might successfully drill into people's skulls "Stop getting your news from social media; that's not news that's rumors."
It's much worse than rumors: it's often deliberately misconstrued/out of context, or outright lies.
Rumors I don't mind so much, since they're usually pretty obvious.
Indeed. Then again "the news" is well known for carefully editorialising things and conflating unverified sources as facts on and off. General journalistic standards have been compromised because there's a race to get the information in front of people faster than social media and it is now seen as ok to correct it later. This is mostly online though. Print and televised media is usually not as real time.
Everything is a shit show.