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IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

And that is different from Social Media of today in what way?

I trust the AP a hell of a lot more than anything I see on Youtube or Facebook. Fuck, when it comes down to it I trust Fox News more than any social media outlet, mostly because I know Fox News is propaganda.

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schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Social media is much more likely to be full of information that is NOT true than to be compltely devoid of information that IS true.

But to your point: that is why Israel now controls TikTok in the United States.

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- IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  His point was “it is up to the audience whether or not they trust the press.”
  
  And that is 100% the case when it comes to social media.
  
  Social Media is much more like to be full of information that is not true that to be completely devoid of information of is true.
  
  That is a totally different topic and completely wrong.
  
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animemann80@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
They didn’t have modern technology at their fingertips: only radio, newspapers, press and word of mouth. It really depends on what country you lived in during that era (US, UK, Japan, Germany, Russia, France, etc). have their own perspectives regarding the war.

They have their own takes on it, if you grew up in Japan during the 40s: you’ll be brainwashed to believe that Americans are the bad guys (or that’s how the government puts it) while another person from the UK during the same time: you’ll dwell more on the Western front as it’s closer.

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- IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  All of that is correct and completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
  
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