• rsuri@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is the problem with social media. The dumbest opinions get spread not because they have a good point or even advance the discussion, but because they’re dumb and we like to look at dumb opinions for entertainment value.

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      6 months ago

      to be honest, dumb opinions from famous people spread like a virus before social media as well.

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      6 months ago

      If by “social media” you mean platforms encouraging teaming together and ape behavior, then certainly yes.

      It’s the modern replacement of 30s’ propaganda. We didn’t notice a revolution in propaganda and censorship and crowd control. These platforms are it.

      People flocked to these without considering that our instincts were developing without such mechanisms in place. That means you shouldn’t be careful on them just as you are with telephone calls from unfamiliar people or newspaper ads, but that plus careful as with a HV cable inside a slaughtering block.