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• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s what happens when Big Tech trap people in information silos and the media manufactures different fake realities depending on the bias of the particular billionaires who happens to own the outlets: people don’t share a common experience anymore and don’t have common facts to agree on. As a result, everybody has their own truths from their own information bubbles and nobody know the actual facts anymore.

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think blaming billionaires for this is incorrect. Look at Lemmy: this place is very much a silo. I’ve been actively participating here for over two years and in that time I have encountered one or two people who supported Trump (the ones posting in /conservative/ before it apparently got taken over). I routinely get called a fascist for being a mainstream Democrat. I’m not complaining (after all, I choose to be here rather than in a more comfortable silo) but clearly being a federated open-source non-profit isn’t solving the problem.

    Some billionaires got rich by enabling people to join online silos, but those billionaires were doing what the people wanted already.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Idk, people here are definitely on average more sane than on mainstream platforms. This also isn’t to do with big tech or billionaires, it’s the fact that even knowing of Lemmy has a certain intellectual barrier that filters out the non-thinking masses.

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    • bobo1900@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would hardly consider “one or two trump supporter in two years” a silo, like how many other people you encountered that were less extremists and more capable of dialogue?

      Also, lemmy is not immune to tech propaganda, since it cannot be taken in isolation: people will still (albeit probably less intesively) biased by consuming other media, and being mostly a link aggregator rather than a generator of original content, there will still be some bias from the sources. It’s just a place where there’s no omnipotent algorithm so the problem is less grave, but still present.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is from 2013. This has nothing to do with big tech, people are just stupid.

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    • jali67@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eh, the rhetoric was still being pushed just in different ways.

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    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because you think this is new?

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  • CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look at all this buzz about Gen z going right wing. They are still by and large left wing and yet the news won’t shut up about Tate or whatever

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• vapeloki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Social Media was a mistake.

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• foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I fear what the results form a survey in the US would find…

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  • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    US public wrong about nearly everything and proud if it?

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• gribzy_uk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This story is from 2013 independent.co.uk/…/british-public-wrong-about-ne…

  I can only assume in the intervening 13ish years, that the public are now wrong about everything.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Americans are not any better. Poll from 2022 …yougov.com/…/41556-americans-misestimate-small-s…

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well they know about something that is 100% true: lizzy’s dead.

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• devedeset@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now do America

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  • AquaTofana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh fuck, the Republicunts will call it fake news and be like “NO I HEARD ONE NEWS STORY ABOUT AN IMMIGRANT MURDERING SOMEONE ONE TIME SO THEY’RE ALL MURDERERS AND THE STUDY IS FLAWED.”

    In short, facts are not going to save us.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could basically iust remove the word “British” from the headline and it would still be accurate.

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• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Having interacted with the British public on a regular basis, I can confirm: they don’t know owt!

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• Gates9@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “We are all in the same boat now”

  pewresearch.org/…/americans-struggles-with-truth-…

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• aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow, if only there was an organization whose purpose was to inform the public about the current state of the world, maybe they could do something about it

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The BBC is a propaganda outlet meant to keep British society in line and and in check so the aristocracy can maintain their power.

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    • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the Sun does the same thing but also with a profit motive

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      LOL

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  • vapeloki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If people would actually READ articles instead of just looking at the headline and pictures.

    And if people would believe articles that do not reflect their view, then and only then, they could do that job

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    • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Corporate media, including “left leaning” and “progressive” outlets, routinely misleads people, especially around the listed issues of crime, public benefits, and immigration. Check out fair.org for tons of examples.

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• TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well at least the British aren’t smarter than us Americans.

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• tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  See they don’t have Fox News and same problems as the U.S.

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  • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lol

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder why

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