mortalic@lemmy.world
on 06 Jun 2024 15:00
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CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
on 06 Jun 2024 15:57
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TLDR: You get misinformed, whoever you share it with gets misinformed and all it takes to spread this are random posts containing it.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
on 06 Jun 2024 16:12
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Did you read the abstract? This doesn’t seem to be what they’re saying at all.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
on 06 Jun 2024 17:12
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guess who’s spreading misinformation :D
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
on 06 Jun 2024 20:32
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But why?
BrightCandle@lemmy.world
on 06 Jun 2024 18:17
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You only really get the choice between misinformed or uninformed, there is no option where you can be informed enough on the topics you need to know about.
While they are right that misinformation in social media is causing a lot of the problem I think misinformation in the press is also driving people to seek information in social media. You can’t have governments and the press repeatedly proven to be lying and have the population accept that version of reality they push. What replaces it is a variety of conspiracy theories, some are just genuine conspiracies but definitely not in the mainstream press. This second aspect the research is consistently ignoring and it matters because its a large part of what is driving people to conspiracy theories. Fake news is not about Trumpnews or theonion its about the mainstream media however much they try to deflect from it.
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TLDR: You get misinformed, whoever you share it with gets misinformed and all it takes to spread this are random posts containing it.
Did you read the abstract? This doesn’t seem to be what they’re saying at all.
guess who’s spreading misinformation :D
But why?
You only really get the choice between misinformed or uninformed, there is no option where you can be informed enough on the topics you need to know about.
While they are right that misinformation in social media is causing a lot of the problem I think misinformation in the press is also driving people to seek information in social media. You can’t have governments and the press repeatedly proven to be lying and have the population accept that version of reality they push. What replaces it is a variety of conspiracy theories, some are just genuine conspiracies but definitely not in the mainstream press. This second aspect the research is consistently ignoring and it matters because its a large part of what is driving people to conspiracy theories. Fake news is not about Trumpnews or theonion its about the mainstream media however much they try to deflect from it.