Comment on How did people expose wartime atrocities during 1939-45 without internet or social media?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 hour agoAnd 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.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
That comment is about people deciding to trust social media.
I will “bite” on your ramblings.
Do you really believe that the press of 1940s Germany and Japan was not 99.9% lies and 1000 different way of lying?
Let’s roll it back even before 1940s. Don’t you think it is strange that it is called Spanish Flu, even though the first case was in Kansas, USA?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 hour ago
How old are you?
Can you believe that times are different at all?
IWW4@lemmy.zip 35 minutes ago
I am just shy of 60 how old are you?
Do I get that times are different? Do you get that you keep changing your argument?