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Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 61

While I'm not entirely in disagreement with your statement, believing a jpeg that has been copied enough times for it to be neigh impossible to read over accredited sources is the real problem. In other words, which sources people rely on.

FB as such isn't a source as much as it is an humanly fed aggregator, with fairly fucking stupid algorithms trying to make sense out of stupid peoples postings. I mean, what could possibly go right?

Comment Re:Doomscrolling? (Score 1) 29

Another factor that clearly contributes is how we use data to further cement those types of news. Newsdesks are very media savvy, and use their engagement data to adapt the output to "what most people read", and not what is actually happening in the world. "News" aren't as much news anymore, as it is clickbait. Very doom and gloom clickbait.

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