You a real one

Very true. You must touch grass before you can touch ass.

the way things are going now, we won't see smarter kids = smarter adults = less idiots on social media in our lifetime. maybe things will get better long after we're gone. social media and videos that ppl consume at an unhealthy rate, ppl are obsessed with mindless stupid content.

ppl will see s*** on sm and regardless if it's factual or not will run with it and tell their friends/family what they saw and treat it as fact when really it's just misinformation

Community notes really slapped the dumbass in chief (really they’re interns typing shyt at gunpoint)

For months I get notifications for the most f***ed up s***. Why. I don't get it

I think there’s a point where most people will read something and if they care about it on any significant level they’ll check out more opinions or do some more reading about it from different perspectives. But most people do not care enough about many topics to do that so whatever they see or read most recently is what they believe.

I would actually argue that the echo chamber aspect of social media is actually much more dangerous than the misinformation part.

It’s like once you go down that route the algorithm adjusts so that it only shows you misinformation. It no longer presents opposing views and other literature because it’s just showing you things that affirm whatever beliefs you already have.

If I could fix anything about social media I’d probably pick that

I definitely do think that a more educated society = less misinformation as a whole tho

Oh yea it’s bleak rn. Especially after Covid. America was never a highly educated country and Covid made it even worse for gen z.

It is what it is tho. It will take a long time but you have to start at the root eventually otherwise the probably will never actually be fixed.

We need huge educational reform in this country starting at kindergarten

sorry op but i think this is a s*** take

wonderful contribution to the discussion thank you

They think social media the problem

let’s just delete social media as a whole, we can go back to normal evolution

Cool

of course tag me if you need my opinion again.

What are some good examples of misinformation on social media spreading and causing adverse outcomes? Like why did you take this stance in the first place

I don't even support social media tbh

KTT2, Lipstick Alley, and the P***hub comment section is where the real ones reside

Q Anon to Jan 6th pipeline

It's not even govt control tho it's private corporate control

''fact-check'' organizations are corrupt too

You know you can log out right?

The age old problem is that there are no impartial arbiters to decide what is and what isn't 'misinformation'.

Example: if you had said COVID was possibly a Chinese biolab leak in 2020 you would have been 'deamplified' or even deplatformed entirely -- now the official position of many governments is that COVID quite possibly is a Chinese biolab leak.

When it comes to information, it's better to have a demolition derby with the most truthful ideas surviving the dogpile than bureaucrats and partisan 'fact checkers' trying to shape reality

the best way to fact check something is to do it yourself and sometimes it's not even possible