And that is different from Social Media of today in what way?
In so many ways you can’t even imagine.
Most of it comes down to: things on today’s social media are 99.9% lies, and 1000 different ways of lying are involved all the time. That just wasn’t there. If there were lies in the official media, then it was the exception, not the normal, and the audience often recognized it, because they knew in advance what these “critical” topics were.
But there was also the time dimension. Nobody knew at that time what had happened somewhere else in the same hour. Rarely in the same week. Outcries about war crimes often happened only years later. And that was NOT regarded as a problem but as the normal thing, things were just as they were.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
yeah. I do find they don’t put much into misinformation. I think its because all they need is the headline since most people do not read much more.
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Tell me about it. I currently made a post and am getting hammered by morons who clearly only read the title, and not even very thoughfully at that.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
did you post more than a title and link?
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
That is a totally different topic and completely wrong.
HubertManne@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
again I find your takes over the top for the comment your replying to.