KCFlyer
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That's a problem for our youth. It's also a problem for baby boomers who are what they think is "internet savvy". Bearing in mind that in the old days, the NTY would want to "scoop" the Wall Street Journal or Washington Post, but there wasn't a zillion other voices - they could verify their reporting. Today, their competition is Tweeter and other social media. Someone like Carlson can put something on Twitter that is utter bull excrement and 85 million people will see it. Now legitimate news is "behind the 8 ball".Think about this, look at all the mental issues that seem to be more prevalent in our youth, like millennials, gen x and gen z.
They all grew up with social media.
People pooh pooh Facebook. I have 177 friends on FAcebook. If I posted some BS and shared it with my friends and they shared it with their friends who shared it with THEIR friends, it would have been seen by over a million people in a matter of hours. And we consider ourselves to be "informed". But the internet and social media has algorithms that quickly note your political leanings and your likes and dislikes so your "news feed" is tailored to what you WANT to see. So if you are shown something that is utter BS, simply agreeing with what it says does not make it right. And that goes either way. The problem is - one has to consciously look for BOTH sides and not just accept what comes across their feed. But that takes work. And one thing the internet has made us is - lazy.